"The doctor in Steglitz has unfortunately passed away," German police said on Twitter.
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"The doctor was critically injured and is currently in intensive care," Berlin police said on Twitter.
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15:45
A shooting has taken place in Berlin with a doctor coming under fire. The attacker shot himself dead, German Bild.de reported.
Police have arrived at the scene. The shooting reportedly occurred at the University Hospital in the German capital`s Steglitz district at around 11:00 GMT.
"We learned about it a few moments ago. We still do not know what happened," a police spokesman said as quoted by Der Tagesspiegel.
"I stood in front of the main entrance, when suddenly a lot of police approached. Heavily armed officers have secured all entrances," a witness told Der Tagesspiegel.
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15:40
A shooting has been reported at a Berlin hospital, RT reported.
Germany has been on high alert following a string of attacks.
A Syrian national whose asylum application had been turned down and who was to be deported to Bulgaria after living in Germany for a year, detonated a bomb late on Sunday in the Bavarian city of Ansbach, killing himself and wounding 15 bystanders.
The same day, another Syrian refugee killed a female colleague with a machete in the southern city of Reutlingen, near Stuttgart.
Earlier, an 18-year-old German-Iranian man Ali David Sonboly opened fire in a crowded Olympia shopping mall and a nearby McDonald`s restaurant, killing nine people before committing suicide.
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