A man fired shots with an air rifle at a refugee shelter in western Germany, leaving a five-year-old girl and an 18-year-old lightly wounded, police said Monday, The Local reports.
The 21-year-old man targeted the shelter from his third-floor apartment just 40 metres away in the shooting on Sunday, police said in a statement.
The mother of the Macedonian girl had noticed that her child was hurt in the leg but initially thought someone had thrown stones or sand at her.
But shortly after, a witness saw the suspect shooting from his apartment, wounding an 18-year-old Syrian in the leg.
Police searched the man's apartment and removed an air rifle and munition.
The suspect was however not detained as "there were no grounds for arrest", a police spokesman told.