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Patient Who Killed Doctor in Berlin Identified as 72-Year-Old Local

© REUTERS / Hannibal HanschkePolice stand outside the university clinic in Steglitz, a southwestern district of Berlin, July 26, 2016 after a doctor had been shot at and the gunman had killed himself.
Police stand outside the university clinic in Steglitz, a southwestern district of Berlin, July 26, 2016 after a doctor had been shot at and the gunman had killed himself. - Sputnik International
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The shooter who killed a doctor in Berlin on Tuesday and committed suicide was a 72-year-old German patient who had received treatment there the day before.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — German police identified the gunman who mortally wounded a doctor on Tuesday at a clinic in the southwestern Berlin district as an elderly German patient who received treatment there the day before.

"The attacker was a 72-year-old German who only yesterday received treatment at the CBF [clinic] in Steglitz," Berlin police tweeted.

​The doctor died in intensive care after he was shot at by the attacker at the Campus Benjamin Franklin hospital. The gunman then killed himself. Police said he had acted alone and had no apparent links to terrorism.

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