Germany: Seventh person dies after Chinese restaurant shooting

A seventh person died of bullet wounds suffered in shooting at a Chinese Restaurant in northern Germany, amid an ongoing investigation into the killings, police said today.

Autopsies were to be carried out later in the day on the bodies of three women and three men found dead yesterday in the Lin Yue restaurant in Sittensen, said police spokesman Christoph Steinke.

The victims’ identities have not yet been released.

Police said the husband of an employee at the restaurant found the bodies when he went to pick her up after working late on Sunday night.

The woman was among the victims.