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A 31-year-old British man was shot dead in Berlin early on Sunday morning, according to reports in the local media. The man was found by a passerby at around six o’clock in the morning on Sunday in the neighborhood of Neukölln, one of the best-loved boroughs among young expats, reports the Berliner Kurier. […] According to the Kurier, the suspect is a 62-year-old Berliner who was wearing a black leather jacket and a cowboy hat at the time of the incident, and was armed with a shotgun. …

Twenty-seven people were injured in Berlin when a knife-wielding teenager went on a rampage. The random attacks happened late Friday as people were leaving a mass celebration to inaugurate a new central railway station in the German capital. None of those attacked had life-threatening injuries and there were no children involved, police said. A 17-year-old youth was arrested in connection with the attacks. Police said they had no motive for the stabbings, but said the teenager was known to them. Attacked in narrow street Police said people were attacked as they walked down a narrow street in the heart of...

Excerpt - BERLIN (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man attacked people streaming out of a gala ceremony for Berlin's new central rail station on Friday night, injuring up to 20 before being arrested, police said. "A crazy man ran down the street stabbing people arbitrarily," a policeman at the scene told Reuters. Police said some of the injured were in serious condition. The attacker was identified as a 17-year old German man from Neukoelln, a southern Berlin district with a large immigrant population. Police said he did not have a far-right background. ~ snip ~