Patient Commits Suicide at Berlin Hospital after Shooting Doctor

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A patient shot a doctor before committing suicide at a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, police said, adding there was no sign the incident was a terrorist attack.

A police spokeswoman told AFP that several shots were fired at a university hospital in the well-heeled southwestern Steglitz neighborhood of the German capital.

"According to preliminary information, a patient at the hospital shot a doctor and then killed himself," she said.

The shooting came with Germany already on edge after four brutal attacks in the south of the country.

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