Man finds wife among six dead at Chinese restaurant

SIX people were found shot dead yesterday morning at a Chinese restaurant in northern Germany, police said.

The corpses of three men and three women, some of them tied up, were found in Sittensen, a town of some 10,000 people south of Hamburg, police said.

Police said a 47-year-old found the bodies when he went to pick up his wife from the Lin Yue restaurant at about half past midnight.

The woman was among the victims.

The bodies were spread across several rooms in the restaurant. In addition, a restaurant employee suffered a life-threatening gunshot wound and was taken to a hospital.

By last night, police said they had no witnesses other than the man who found the bodies and no tips as to who might have been responsible.

“We know nothing about the background to the crime and nothing about the motive. So far that is still unclear,” a police spokesman said.

A very young child was also discovered unharmed in the building but was unable to tell police anything about the crime.

There was no immediate word on any possible motive.

Police appealed for anyone who visited the restaurant on Sunday evening, and to passers-by who saw anything suspicious, to come forward.

“They’re really nice people — I’ve never seen an angry face there,” said local resident, Hilly Behrens.