FOG BLOG WORLD LOG: SHOOTING KILLS 6 AT JEHOVAH WITNESSES HALL IN HAMBURG GERMANY!

Shooting kills 6 at Jehovah's Witnesses hall in Hamburg Police admit the 35-year-old male was previously questioned after an anonymous tip A gunman stormed a service at his former Jehovah's Witnesses congregation in Hamburg, killing six people before taking his own life after police arrived, authorities in the German port city said Friday.

Thomas Radszuweit, a Hamburg security official, said the man was a 35-year-old German national whom he identified only as Philipp F. in line with German privacy rules. He said the suspected shooter was not previously known to authorities in Hamburg and there was no previous case against him.

Radszuweit said that it's not possible yet to pinpoint why the man went on the shooting rampage but there is no indication of a political motive. Police say the perpetrator shot himself inside the Jehovah's Witnesses hall after officers forced their way into the building.

The suspected shooter had a weapons license and legally owned a semi-automatic pistol, Hamburg police chief Ralf Martin Meyer said.

Meyer said the man was visited by police after they received an anonymous tip in January, claiming he "bore particular anger toward religious believers, in particular toward Jehovah's Witnesses and his former employer." Officers said the man was co-operative and found no grounds to take away his weapon, according to Meyer.

"The bottom line is that an anonymous tip in which someone says they're worried a person might have a psychological illness, isn't in itself a basis for [such] measures," he said.

Germany's gun laws are more restrictive than those in the United States, but permissive compared with some European neighbours, and shootings are not unheard of.

Eight people were wounded, including a woman who was 28 weeks pregnant, resulting in the death of her unborn child. All of the victims were German citizens apart from two wounded women, one with Ugandan citizenship and one with Ukrainian citizenship.