A patient shot at a doctor in a university clinic in southwest Berlin this morning before shooting himself dead, German police said.

Police said the doctor was seriously injured in the attack.

A spokeswoman for the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charite university hospital had no immediate comment. 

The German police said there were "no signs at all" of a link between the shooting and terrorism. 

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