A doctor has been shot in a Berlin hospital.
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The shooter has allegedly shot themselves after shooting the doctor inside the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Hospital Steglitz).
A spokeswoman for the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charite university hospital had no immediate comment.
“The doctor sustained a life-threatening injury and is now in intensive care”, Berlin police said on Twitter.
They said there was no sign of a link between the shooting and terrorism.
The shooter was a patient of the doctors, police said. An anti-terrorist unit is at the scene, and the main building has been evacuated, according to the Bild newspaper.
The hospital shooting follows four other attacks in Germany since July 18.
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On the same day, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested in Reutlingen after a pregnant woman was killed with a machete.
