Motorbike Rider Opens Fire on Hertha Berlin Bus

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Shots were fired by an unidentified motorcyclist on the Hertha Berlin team bus, the German Bundesliga team's manager Michael Preetz confirmed on Sunday.

Only the driver was in the bus at the time and was not injured in the incident which came ahead of the team's German Cup match on Monday at second-division Bielefeld in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of western Germany.

"Our driver was going from the hotel to the train station at Bielefeld to collect the team. An unidentified person on a motorbike fired at the bus," said Preetz, adding that "the type of firearm used has not yet been determined".

The club posted a photo on Twitter showing the bus with the impact of a bullet which smashed a hole in the windscreen at the level of the driver's head.

Bielefeld police told SID, an AFP subsidiary, that an investigation was underway.

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