German gunman kills nine in shisha bar rampage; extremist motive suspected - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The attack late on Wednesday targeted two shisha bars in Hanau, a town close to Frankfurt in the western state of Hesse.

In shisha bars, customers share flavored tobacco from a communal hookah, or water pipe. In Western countries, they are often owned and operated by people from the Middle East or South Asia, where use of the hookah is a centuries-old tradition. Germany’s political landscape has been polarized in recent years, with a wave of immigration and a slowing economy helping to fuel support for extremist groups at both ends of the spectrum.

They said investigations into the identity of gunman and victims were ongoing and, Beuth said, whether any letters of confession had been written. “I heard my father was affected and my little brother, they run the kiosk, I don’t have much to do with it,” said Frisenna. “But then I saw them both – they were horrified and they were crying and everything. So everyone was shocked.”

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