The doctor was shot at in the Charité hospital in Berlin

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The shooter has shot themselves after shooting the doctor at 1pm (12pm BST) inside the Charité University Hospital Steglitz's Benjamin Franklin campus in the southwest of Berlin.

Berlin Police said the doctor was critically injured and is now in intensive care.

The shooter was a former patient of the doctor's, police said.

Counter-terror police were immediately called to the scene.

Berlin Police tweeted: "The doctor at #CBF in #Steglitz sadly passed away.

“There is currently no evidence of a terrorist background at the #CBF incident in #Steglitz.”