Berlin Shooting: Man Dragged from Canal As Four Injured after 'Altercation'

A police spokeswoman said four people were taken to hospital in the altercation involving several people in the Kreuzberg district, adding there was no indication of a political motive.

The Berlin fire service said earlier on Twitter that three people were seriously injured in the shooting, Reuters reported.

Armed police responded to the incident hunting down those who may have fired the shots in the city at 3.55am.

A man who tried to jump out the way of the incident was later pulled out of a nearby canal with an injured leg, according to DW.

Three more people were found injured in a driveway, DPA reported, before emergency services took them to hospital having first tried treating them at the scene.

Witnesses described seeing a police helicopter circling the area.

The Social Democratic Party of Germany headquarters is near to the shooting but is so far considered to be unrelated to the location of the altercation.

Officers cordoned off the area on Stresemannstrasse which was closed throughout the early morning from Anhalter Bahnhof to Willy-Brandt-Haus, BZ says.

Cartridge cases from gun shots were found on the floor at the scene and a door was left with bullet holes, according to BZ information.

The incident came in the early hours of Boxing Day.

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