Overview

• A 72-year-old patient was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to Hamburg’s Marienkrankenhaus, where the blaze claimed three elderly lives and injured 34 people; he is due before a judge as police explore potential psychological motives.
• Bundespolizei officers near Schirnding fatally shot a 47-year-old man after he allegedly opened fire during a routine border check; no officers were hurt and prosecutors are probing the circumstances.
• In Schleswig-Holstein, a hit-and-run in Nindorf killed a 25-year-old woman; police have traced the involvement of a red Mercedes Vito but have yet to identify the driver.
• Separate traffic accidents claimed a 19-year-old motorcyclist’s life in Geisenhausen and a 71-year-old driver’s life in Hamburg-Fischbek, while a 2-year-old boy in Gera and a 52-year-old motorcyclist in Torgau were seriously injured.
• Investigators have also charged a 28-year-old with attempted murder after he drove a stolen excavator into oncoming traffic in Burgwald and are examining a violent family dispute in Raunheim that left a 48-year-old man critically injured.