The motive for the shootings remain unclear
HANAU (Germany), Feb 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least eight people were killed in two shooting incidents late on Wednesday in the German city of Hanau, police said.
Police special units are chasing an unknown number of perpetrators, who fled the scene of the attack in the city of around 90,000 people near Frankfurt.
According to local media reports, three people were killed in front of the first bar and five in front of the second.
Heavily armed police sealed off two streets in the city of Hanau, where ambulances had rushed, while a police helicopter hovered over the city.
Public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk earlier reported that the first shots were fired at a shisha bar in the city centre, with witnesses saying they had heard eight or nine shots.
The report said that the perpetrators then drove to the western neighbourhood of Kesselstadt before they started shooting again at another shisha bar.
The motive for the shootings remain unclear.
Police have set up a hotline for members of the public with information that could lead to the suspects.
Germany has been targeted in recent years by several extremist attacks, one of which killed 12 people in the heart of Berlin in December 2016. — NNN-AGENCIES
