Three dead bodies were found on neighboring residential properties in Bienenbüttel, Lower Saxony. According to initial findings, there was a bloody altercation between the neighbors, the police said on Friday evening. The dead are an 85-year-old property owner and the 62-year-old owner of the neighboring property and his 61-year-old wife.

In the residential area in Bargdorf, a district of Bienenbüttel in the Uelzen district, residents heard several gunshots and screams at noon and informed the police, according to the evening message. A large number of emergency services cordoned off the area over a large area. A lifeless person was then discovered outside of a property.