Police in Germany say there’s been a shooting at the Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping center, in Munich. They confirm shots have been fired at. The incident came to light as employees of the mall heard several shots being fired. About 10 people are reportedly dead as a repercussion of the shooting. Police said the suspected gunman, 18, killed himself and appears to have acted alone in the Friday shooting at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum mall, adding that three men seen fleeing were not involved.
The shopping center is next to the Munich Olympic stadium, where the Palestinian militant group Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and eventually killed them during the 1972 Olympic Games. German media say multiple people are injured.
Police are responding in large numbers including the special forces . TV images showed dozens of emergency vehicles outside the mall. City public transport has been shut down.
It’s the second attack in Germany in less than a week. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan wounded four people in an ax-and-knife on a regional train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, and attacked another woman outside as he fled. All survived, although one man from the train remains in life-threatening condition. The attacker was shot and killed by police.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the train attack, but authorities have said the teen likely acted alone.
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MUNICH: Police in Munich say they are hunting for a motive that might explain why an 18-year-old German-Iranian man opened fire at a crowded shopping mall and a McDonald’s, killing nine people and wounding 16 others before killing himself.
Some 2,300 police from across Germany and neighboring countries were scrambled late Friday when the Bavarian capital declared an “emergency situation” after reports of shots fired at a McDonald’s near the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall.
A Munich police spokesman, Peter Beck, said Saturday morning that security restrictions have been lifted and public transport is operating as normal.
Beck told that “with regard to the suspect we have to examine everything, but we don’t know yet what triggered the crime.” He says officers are still collecting evidence at the scene.
German tabloid Bild says that police are questioning the suspected gunman’s father as forensic teams search the apartment where he lived with his parents.
Neighbours have described him as a “quiet guy”.
“A friend of mine went to school with him and said he was rather a quiet guy. He recognised him from the videos from the scene,” said one
Munich police say gunman was 18-year-old man with German and Iranian citizenship.
(Sourced from the agencies.)
