A man who said he worked at one of the shops in the mall, described how he came face-to-face with the shooter.
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According to police, the gray medium-sized auto had been hijacked. Police said three of the injured people are in a critical condition.
Beck was unable to say whether one or more suspects were among the dead.
Another video appeared to show a gunman on the roof of a parking garage as he exchanged insults with people on a nearby balcony who referred to him a foreigner.
The gunman outside McDonald’s was caught on video firing a handgun and police believe this is all he had.
All subway services in the city were halted after reports that the suspect fled into the subway, and police appealed to people to clear the streets as they hunt for the gunmen.
“On the basis of witness reports and on the basis of CCTV footage we assume that this person is the suspect”.
This is the third attack against civilians in Western Europe in eight days following a truck attack in Nice, France, and an axe and knife attack on a train in Bavaria, Germany.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack.
His body was found about 1km (half a mile) from the mall.
Witness Luan Zequiri said he was in the mall when the shooting began and “there was a really loud scream”, he told German broadcaster n-tv.
Austria said it has “significantly” tightened security measures in states sharing a border with Germany and put its elite Cobra police force on high alert.
“I looked in his direction and he shot two people on the stairs”, he said.
“And then I saw bodies and injured people”, he said. Munich police declared an “akute terrorlage” or “acute terrorist situation”, triggering the shutdown of major roads, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.
Muslim newspaper in Germany, Islamische Zeitung, tweeted that mosques in Munich would stay open overnight for anyone who needs refuge. Members of Germany’s elite anti-terrorism force are on their way to the scene of the shooting, and the country’s interior minister has cut short his holiday to return to Berlin for a security meeting.
“The exchange, recorded on two different camera phones, captured an intense conversation that ends in gunfire”, CNN writes. It is unknown if any of the attackers are among the dead.
The Munich Police’s official Twitter account confirmed the death toll. “We can’t confirm them, but we are investigating along those lines too”.
Several people have been reported to be killed.
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It was believed to have started at a McDonald’s, with multiple shots fired, before the attacker moved to the Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping centre in the south German city about 6pm local time on Friday. “I am German. You will get it, ‘” Bayri said.
