Iran said on Saturday the worldwide community should make fighting terrorism its top priority, after an 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman apparently acting alone killed at least nine people in Munich.
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As authorities sought to piece together the circumstances of an attack behind which they had found no immediate evidence of an Islamist motive, Munich police said.
Mr Andrae also said the German-Iranian attacker had “no link whatsoever to the topic of refugees”.
“He had apparently been undergoing medical and indeed psychiatric treatment”, said Steinkraus-Koch.
A second victim was named by her brother on Facebook as Armela Segashi, who he said died along with a third, Sabina Sulaj.
A German-Iranian teenager shot nine people and then shot himself in Munich on Friday.
Sevda Dag, a 45-year-old Turkish woman, was reportedly the oldest victim of the atrocity.
Police investigator Robert Heimberger said it appeared the teenager had hacked into a Facebook account and lured people to a shopping centre with an offer of free food.
Earlier a father visited the scene at the Olympia shopping centre to mourn his son’s death, while others paid tribute to friends and loved ones lost in the massacre that left nine people dead, majority teenagers. “Germany’s one of our closest allies so we are going to pledge all of the support that they may need in dealing with these circumstances”, he said.
In Berlin, the Federal Security Council – including Merkel, her chief of staff Peter Altmaier, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere – is meeting to assess the situation.
“I’m German, I was born here”, the assailant replies after the man fired off a volley of swear words, including an offensive term for foreigners.
The spokesman for Munich prosecutors’ office says the teenage gunman who killed nine people in the city on Friday had received psychiatric treatment previous year.
-7:13 p.m. Munich police in a Twitter post say the shooting scene remains confused and say there are multiple people wounded.
Franco Augustini, another resident, said his daughter hid in the mall during the attack.
In a conversation between the gunman and someone on a balcony, the attacker can be heard shouting: “I am German”.
Some 2,300 police from across Germany and neighboring Austria were scrambled in response to the attack, which happened less than a week after a 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker wounded five people in an ax-and-knife rampage that started on a regional train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg. “It was frightful and made me speechless”.
The Spanish government has condemned the shooting in Munich that has left 10 dead, calling the attack a “senseless, cowardly and criminal act”.
She saw someone lying on the floor of a store who appeared to be either dead or injured.
The posting had been sent from a young woman’s account.
A video appeared to show the gunman on a auto park roof exchanging a tirade of insults with a man on a nearby balcony.
The exchange, recorded on two camera phones, captured an intense conversation that ended in gunfire.
During the rampage, the shooter got into an argument with a witness and their profanity-filled conversation was captured on two camera phones and posted on social media. Twenty-seven people were hospitalized, including four with gunshot wounds, said Andrae.
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The shooting shook Europe after a spate of recent terror attacks on the continent, including the stabbing of passengers on a German train by a man who claimed to be inspired by ISIS and the killing of 84 people in a truck attack in Nice, France.
