The incident occurred in Stresemannstrasse close to the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party – Germany’s second biggest political group – but there is no suggestion it was connected to either politics or terrorism.
At least four men have been injured in a shooting in Berlin in the early hours of Boxing Day morning.
Heavily armed police officers were deployed to the city’s Kreuzberg district after gunfire rocked the area shortly before 4am, according to the Deutsche Welle website.
The city’s attorney general said the incident may have been connected to organised crime in the German capital.
One of the injured men was pulled from the Landwehr canal, with a gunshot wound to the leg. The other three were in a nearby driveway.
Emergency services initially treated all four at the scene but all of the men have now been moved to hospitals. According to the BBC, all four of the victims were aged between 30 and 42.
The unidentified assailants fled the scene and remain at large.
Tennessee bomb squad finds no explosives in second truck playing same audio as the Nashville RV
A bomb squad found no explosives in a suspicious vehicle in Tennessee that was reported playing similar audio to that heard before the Nashville motorhome exploded.
The truck was pulled over on Sunday morning and the driver, who was accompanied by a minor, was arrested.
Police sent a bomb-detecting robot to the white truck, parked beside a road in Lebanon, 30 miles from Nashville.
But the search revealed there was no dangerous material or explosives inside the truck, according to Nashville’s Fox17.
On Christmas Day a recreational vehicle (RV) in Nashville exploded in what police believe may have been an elaborate suicide.
On Sunday, Nashville police confirmed that they believe a local IT expert, Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, detonated the truck, likely with himself inside. Human remains were found on the scene and a DNA test is being carried out.
The motive remains unclear.
Before the Nashville motorhome exploded, a warning message was blared from a loudspeaker.
Police were called on Sunday after a local resident reported that the Lebanon vehicle, described as a “box truck” or small lorry, was playing similar messages.
Local news stations broadcast footage of the robot, and then specialist officers readying to approach the vehicle.
Rutherford County sheriff’s office said that they were alerted to the lorry, parked at Crossroads Market in Walter Hill, near Highway 231, around 10:30am.
