The OEZ is one of Munich’s most popular shopping centres, containing doctors’ practices and other services as well as stores.
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Police are urging people to avoid public places and said that they could not confirm if there were other crime scenes apart from Hanauer Street. People could be seen running and screaming through the centre of the city.
Staff in the shopping centre were still in hiding, an employee told Reuters.
Munich public transit operator MVG says all subway, bus and trolley cars have been shut down because of the police operation until further notice. The latest reports suggest that police are still evacuating the building.
Police escort people who leave the Olympia mall in Munich after shots were fired.
“We expect more dead”, a police spokesman tells DPA, the German Press Agency.DPA, the German Press Agency. Police ordered people around the shopping center to shelter in place.
The police said the first call, which came in at 5:53 p.m. local time, came from the McDonald’s restaurant near the mall.
Police warned people to avoid the area.
Police in Germany say there’s been a shooting at a shopping center in Munich.
Munich police are hunting the suspects but no one is in custody yet.
A manhunt is underway for a shooter or shooters who opened fire at Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall in Munich.
Images and video on social media showed frenzied activity outside the Olympia Einkaufszentrum area.
“Don’t help the attackers!” the police said on Twitter.
The shopping center is near Munich’s Olympic Stadium, built for the 1972 Games.
Friday’s attack took place a week after a 17-year-old asylum-seeker wounded passengers on a German train in an axe rampage claimed by Daesh.
Authorities are expected to release further details about the fatal shooting of a Kansas City, Kansas, police captain who was searching for a drive-by shooting suspect.
Obama said “exactly what’s happening” in Munich was unclear.
Facebook launched its “safety check” feature for users to let their friends know whether they’re OK.
The Olympia-Einkaufszentrum mall is less than 2 miles from the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Village, where terrorists kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes in a bloody 20-hour siege that made worldwide headlines and threatened to derail the global sporting event.
British nationals in Germany are being advised to comply with instructions from local authorities. “We believe we are dealing with a shooting rampage. The witnesses said there were three different people with weapons”.
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A spokesperson for police in Munich described the incident as a “possible terror attack” while speaking to a German radio station.
