At least nine people were shot and killed on Wednesday by an attacker with suspected far-right links in an overnight rampage in a German city.

The attack was carried out at two shisha lounges in Hanau, a town not far from Frankfurt. Police are trying to identify the victims, some of whom were believed to be migrants from Turkey.

The suspected 43-year-old attacker and his mother were found dead in his apartment early on Thursday.

There have been a number of far-right attacks in recent years in Germany, with violence rising sharply in 2015 when the country took in more than one million migrants.

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The German domestic intelligence agency estimated that the number of violent crimes with far-right elements rose by 3 percent in 2018, although attacks on centres for asylum seekers fell after a spike in 2015 and 2016.

Earlier this month, German police arrested 12 men on suspicion of involvement in a far-right plot to overthrow the political order by means of targeted attacks.

Here is a timeline including recent far-right attacks that took place in Germany: