According to Reuters, the shooter has been identified as an 18-year-old German-Iranian.
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A spokesman for the police says officers are investigating a body near the shopping center that they believe is connected to the attack, but they have not confirmed if it is the body of a perpetrator.
Police said 10 of the 27 injured in the mass-shooting are now in a critical condition, including a 13-year-old boy.
Most of the nine victims killed in the Munich shooting were teenagers, officials told journalists Saturday.
They also revealed the gunman used a 9mm pistol and had 300 rounds of ammunition when he went on what they called a “classic shooting rampage”.
A Duke University student who witnessed terrified shoppers fleeing the gunman who opened fire at a Munich, Germany, mall Friday, says she feels lucky to be alive.
He is also set to attend a meeting of Germany’s security cabinet of ministers, which is chaired by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
There are children among the victims and three of the 16 people injured in the shooting remain in critical condition, Andrae said.
Two men initially suspected as accomplices in the shooting who had left the scene in a vehicle were later interviewed and cleared, police said.
Police said that based on witness testimony, they were acting on the assumption that there were at least three attackers.
A total of 10 people died in the shooting, including the gunman who killed himself.
The chief of police in the Bavarian capital made the announcement on Saturday.
Andrae said authorities did not see similarities to an attack in southern Germany last Monday in which an axe-wielding 17-year-old asylum-seeker killed five people in an incident claimed by the Islamic State group.
He had lived in the city “for a while”, Mr Andrae said.
Investigators pointed to several connections: the date of the shooting was the fifth anniversary of the Norway attack, the age of the victims was similar and the attacker extensively researched mass shootings.
“We have no further information, we’re just staying in the back in the storage rooms”.
In May, a mentally unstable 27-year-old man carried out a knife attack on a regional train in Bavaria, killing one person and injuring three others.
Grabs from a video show a man shooting outside a McDonald’s in Munich on Friday.
Employees and customers barricaded themselves inside shops as the attack took place, while more than 2,000 police flooded the area. But police later said the assailant likely acted alone.
“There is absolutely no link to the Islamic State”, Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said.
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The Herald also features a front page picture of the Munich aftermath, but leads with claims that Britain is facing a new recession in the wake of the Brexit vote.
