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A mass shooting at a German housing centre for pregnant women left six people dead and several injured today.
Shots were fired in the Dankersstrasse area of Stade in Lower Saxony this afternoon. Five people – made up of four women and a man – died at the scene. A six person, whose gender is not known, died later in hospital.
Police said main suspect was arrested, while another two people were subject to ‘police measures’ on suspicion of involvement – at least one of whom is male.
The motive for the shooting, which happened at around 12.10pm local time (11.10am UK time), was initially unclear, but cops later said this was an ‘extended family tragedy’, adding: ‘It is not related to femicide or a political motive.’
Police further said the motive ‘lies within the environment’ of the facility, which includes temporary accommodation for pregnant women or young mothers with children.
Footage shared by Bild appeared to show the moment two of the people involved were caught fleeing by police. An adult was seen falling out of a stopped grey car as a second person was being detained by armed police.
Photos from the scene show a grey Mercedes with at least one of its tyres blown out.
Footage from local media appeared to show the moment the suspects in the shooting were arrested
Five people have died in a mass shooting in Dankersstrasse area of Stade in Lower Saxony
The back-right tyre was shredded, and the car was surrounded by several police.
An eyewitness told Focus, a German news magazine, that they heard police fire shots at a man and a woman who appeared to be attempting to flee the scene in a car.
One officer reportedly shouted at the car’s inhabitants: ‘Stop, stay put!’
When the car did not stop, police fired up to 15 rounds. Police were then heard saying there had been shots to the ‘chest’ and ‘head’, though it is not clear whether these were in reference to the alleged perpetrators or the victims.
Local media reported that both of the people detained were both over 21 years of age.
The eyewitness said they saw a person being carried out of the care facility on a stretcher and being resuscitated on the street.
German broadcaster RTL reported that investigators do not believe it was connected to ‘clan-based organised crime’.
It is not known how many people were injured in the attack. The role of the second person detained is also being determined.
But police said that some people were ‘seriously injured’ during the attack.
Photos from the scene show a grey Mercedes with at least one of its tyres blown out
Forensic Police officers go in a housing centre for pregnant women where a shooting took place in Stade, northern Germany, on June 29, 2026
A large number of crime scene investigators were spotted at the site of the attack
Stade has a population of around 50,000 people, and is located west of Hamburg.
Germany has some of Europe’s strictest gun laws – they require anyone under 25 to pass a psychiatric exam before applying for a gun licence – and mass shootings are relatively rare.
But they occur from time to time, and Monday’s was among the deadliest in recent times.
Earlier this year, a pair of shootings in Berlin and Strullendorf saw a total of four people die and four people get injured.
The January shooting in Berlin saw four people get wounded during a family dispute in the centre of the city.
And in February, a man shot and killed his wife and two children, before turning the gun on himself, in the Bavarian city of Strullendorf.
The back-right tyre of the car seemingly used as a getaway vehicle was shredded
Emergency responders and forensic investigators in Stade, Germany, Monday, June 29, 2026
In February 2020, a far-right extremist shot dead nine people and wounded five others in the central German city of Hanau.
In March 2023 a disgruntled former Jehovah’s Witness member shot dead six people from the Christian group’s congregation in the German city of Hamburg, before turning the gun on himself.
In May 2022 a 21-year-old gunman opened fire at a secondary school in northern Germany, badly injuring a female member of staff before being arrested.