8 people have been reported dead and dozens injured in a shooting on Thursday night at a Jehovah’s Witness centre in Hamburg, Germany. Police said the gunman was believed to be dead and that the motive remained unclear, writes The Guardian.

“We have no indications of a perpetrator on the run”, a police spokesperson said soon after the attack, which began at around 9pm on Thursday night. Later, police said that they had found a “lifeless person … who we believe could be a perpetrator” at the centre but that investigations were ongoing.

The Bild newspaper reported that 8 people were dead and 25 others injured, of which eight were seriously wounded. It is unclear if the attacker was included in the death toll. Police said that several people were seriously injured but declined to say how many had died, Reuters reported.