Forensic experts are seen outside a shisha bar after a shooting in Hanau near Frankfurt, Germany
Eight people were killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau on Wednesday evening, authorities said. Two hookah lounges were reportedly targeted.
Authorities were searching for the perpetrators early Thursday, three hours after the shootings which took place at about 10 p.m. (2100 GMT).
A short police statement gave no information on the victims. It said the motive is not immediately clear.
Police said a dark vehicle was seen leaving the scene of the first shooting, and another shooting was reported at a second site.
Regional public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk said, without citing sources, that an attack took place in a hookah lounge in the center of the city. It said witnesses reported hearing eight or nine shots and seeing at least one person lying on the ground.
The perpetrator or perpetrators then apparently went to another part of the city, where shots were fired in another hookah lounge, the broadcaster said.
Hanau is in southwestern Germany, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of Frankfurt. It has about 100,000 inhabitants.
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