AA German has been shot dead in the Bahamas. A second German citizen was injured by shots, said the police of the island state. The background was initially unclear. At the request of the German Press Agency, the Federal Foreign Office confirmed on Thursday that a German national had been killed in the Bahamas on Wednesday. The man was 57 years old, said a police spokeswoman.
According to the police, according to initial reports, a total of three men with German citizenship were in front of their “summer residence” on the sparsely populated Andros island chain when a masked man approached them with a gun on Wednesday evening (local time). The victims tried to run into the house, it said. The gunman opened fire and then fled in an unknown direction.
The injured should be flown to the Bahamian capital Nassau for medical treatment. A team of investigators traveled to Andros, said the police spokeswoman. The perpetrator is being vigorously searched for.
“I’m shocked, I’m angry and I’m sad,” Leon Lundy, MP for the area, wrote on Facebook. The affected community is small and closely connected, everyone knows everyone. It was an unprecedented act for her.