China News Agency, Berlin, December 26 (Reporter Peng Dawei) In the early morning of the 26th local time, a shooting occurred in the Kreuzberg district in southern Berlin, Germany, causing serious injuries to four people.
The Berlin Police Homicide Investigation Committee is investigating the case.
The prosecution believes that this is a shooting case involving organized crime.
The 26th is the Christmas holiday in Germany. Almost all commercial activities in Berlin have ceased that day.
According to the case reported by the Berlin police and the prosecutor that day, at about 4 am on the 26th, residents of Stresemann Street in Kreuzberg District reported to the police that they heard gunfire in this area.
Police rushed to the scene of the crime and found three injured men, and another injured man jumped into a nearby river.
Rescuers later rescued him.
Two of the four are 30 years old, and the remaining two are 39 and 42 years old.
The police have sent four people to hospital for treatment due to serious injuries.
The authorities did not disclose whether the four injured were armed or not when they were taken away by the police, and what role they played in the shooting.
According to a report by the Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Corporation, the crime scene was adjacent to the Willy Brandt Building, where the headquarters of the German ruling Social Democratic Party is located.
A bullet hole appeared in the door of a building directly opposite the Social Democratic Party headquarters building.
The police have blocked the surrounding sidewalks.
The Berlin police sent a large number of police officers to guard the scene of the crime that day, and special police officers searched a house.
The Berlin Police Homicide Investigation Committee is continuing to investigate the case.
The police said that the background and reasons for the case are currently unclear.
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