Five dead in shooting at youth welfare centre in northern Germany

What happened

Two people have been arrested, one of whom is the suspected shooter, police say

The impact

The significance lies in what happens next: BBC notes that responses are already forming.

The five backdrop

The arc leading to this moment stretches across multiple prior developments in five, dead, shooting, youth, welfare, as BBC has documented.

Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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Our five read

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of five, dead, shooting, youth, welfare: Two people have been arrested, one of whom is the suspected shooter, police say.