Police said documents of “frenzied attacks” had been discovered the gunman’s room, including a book about “rampage shooting in the mind”.
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Here is a timeline of the shooting at a shopping mall in Munich where a gunman, identified as an 18-year-old German-Iranian, killed nine people, a lot of them teenagers, on Friday evening (all times local). Another attack is said to have taken place at a metro station in the city with “multiple people” have been injured and killed in the attacks.
Armed with a handgun, the attacker opened fire at a McDonald’s restaurant and continued along the street before entering the mall.
Both the Wuerzburg attack, and the Bastille Day rampage by a truck driver in Nice, France that killed 84 people on July 14, were claimed by Islamic State militants.
The attack comes at a tense time for Germany.
Another man who said he worked at one of the shops in the mall, described how he came face to face with one of the assailants.
A woman cries at a makeshift memorial site near the Olympia shopping centre in Munich, where a shooting left nine people dead the day before.
The killer, who was born in Munich, had a 9mm Glock pistol and 300 bullets. The first video reporting to show the shootings was recorded and published to social media in the minutes after the attacks, although unconfirmed the video is being used on most mainstream media outlets. Three people are in a critical condition.
The man, whose identity is yet to be revealed by police, was not previously known to police and there was no evidence of any links to terrorist organisations, he added. He adds that intelligence agencies had no information on him.
Sendet said she learned an old school friend of hers was one of the nine people gunned down Friday.
Flags are to be flown at half-mast across Germany in mourning and Chancellor Angela Merkel has delayed a holiday in the Alps to chair a meeting of the national security council.
The Bavarian capital was placed under a state of emergency as police hunted for the suspected attackers and special forces were deployed in the city. All were residents of Munich, he said. “And it’s even more hard to bear because we have had so much awful news in so few days”.
French President Francois Hollande has expressed his condolences and support for Germany after the Munich attack, calling it an “ignoble act aimed at spreading horror in Germany”.
Arab countries lined up on Saturday to condemn a shooting attack in Munich, Germany, in which at least ten people were killed. Parliament Speaker Kadri Veseli said that “such awful attacks can not and will not change our joint values and living”. Wearing the race leader’s yellow jersey, Chris Froome stood next to German champion Andre Greipel. Six hours later police declared a “cautious all clear”, saying the suspect was among the 10 dead and that he had likely acted alone.
“It appears it was prepared by the suspect and then sent out”, Heimberger said.
The woman shortly after reported that her account had been hacked.
Ali Sonboly, the German-Iranian gunman, was reportedly last seen online mere hours before the murderous shooting spree, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae told a news conference early Saturday that the shooting suspect was a dual citizen who had lived in the city for some time, and whose motive was still “fully unclear”.
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Police have said they found no links to Islamic State, but said Sonboly, who also had Iranian nationality, had previously been treated for mental health problems.
