Mr Andrea said inquiries suggested the suspect had lived in the city for more than two years and is not thought to have been known to law enforcement agencies. The police have thus far refused to release his identity.
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Police said at least 11 people were killed and that the attackers are still on the loose.
Dieter Reiter says the city is “shocked and aghast at this awful act”. “The exchange, recorded on two different camera phones, captured an intense conversation that ends in gunfire”, CNN writes.
Munich newspaper TZ said one of the shooters was dead.
Meanwhile, a German magazine “Focus” cited police sources as saying one of the gunmen on the rampage in Munich had shot himself in the head and died.
A pedestrian hands flowers to a policeman to place it near the Olympia shopping mall, where yesterday’s shooting rampage started, in Munich, Germany, July 23, 2016. It is unknown if any of the attackers are among the dead.
Asked about a possible Islamist motive to the shootings at the news conference, the police spokesman said authorities had “no indication” of such a link. Members of Germany’s anti-terror force are en route to the site of the shooting.
Police said the victims killed in the massacre included adolescents, while there are children among the 16 people injured. “We assume that he was the only shooter”, police said on Twitter.
Residents have been ordered to stay at home and public transportation has been suspended.
The incidents in Germany follow an attack in Nice, France, on Bastille Day in which a Tunisian drove a truck into crowds, killing 84. The first report came at 6 pm, the shooting apparently began at a McDonald’s in the shopping centre.
“On the basis of witness reports and on the basis of CCTV footage we assume that this person is the suspect”.
Munich transport authorities have halted several bus, train and tram lines.
The OEZ shopping centre, which opened in the 1970s near the city’s Olympic stadium, was surrounded by armed police and emergency vehicles, while a helicopter buzzed overhead.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday condemned shooting rampage at a mall in the German city of Munich on Friday night.
“All that we know and can say right now is that it was a cruel and inhumane attack”, he said on German public channel ARD.
Police initially believed there could be up to three assailants.
The shooting happened in a busy shopping Munich mall Olympia late afternoon Friday when families with children are mostly in malls for the weekend.
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After some time, shooting was reported at Marienplatz station in Munich.
