This video, recently posted to social media, appears to show the beginning of the shootings. The transport system has reopened.
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The operation of the public transport system in Munich is now suspended, according to the press release. “This can not continue. The rise of terrorism threatens the way of life for all civilized people, and we must do everything in our power to keep it from our shores”. ISIS claimed responsibility for inspiring the teen.
An image from a video purporting to show the shooter.
Armed policemen arrive at the shopping centre.
Police declared an “acute terrorist situation” Friday in Munich and shut down traffic and rail service in the southern German city after a gunman went on a shooting rampage at a shopping mall, killing at least eight people. Munich police spokesman Marcus Martins said a ninth body had been found and police were “intensively examining” whether it might be one of the suspects.
Sky presenter Sam Washington said the hotel she was in staying in was “jammed with people who’ve come in off the street”.
The shooting started in a fast-food restaurant at 5.52pm on Friday, according to initial police accounts.
Police were hunting for an unknown number of gummen who opened fire Friday at the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall, one of Munich’s largest. On Twitter and on television, witnesses reported hearing sirens and police helicopters.
“The situation is still completely confusing”, Thomas Baumann, a deputy spokesman of the Munich police, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the German press agency. “It is not clear whether is one or many shooters”.
“The hotel was handing out bottles of water at the same time as the very odd site of preparing afternoon teas for people”, she said. So far, 9 people have been confirmed dead, although other reports indicate as many as 15 were killed.
Emergency vehicles near the shopping mall in Munich where shots have been fired.
“There were youths among the dead”, Andrae said, adding that some of those injured were children. “Many killed. God bless the people of Munich”.
The USA and Great Britain condemn the attack and stand ready to assist German police.
“We have no further information, we’re just staying in the back in the storage rooms”.
The statements come one day after Trump painted a foreboding picture of the U.S. in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, when he spoke of police killings, murders committed by undocumented immigrants and the threat of terrorism on United States soil. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to be quoted by name. “Taking place on the same day as we mourn & remember the appalling terror that hit Norway so hard five years ago”.
“How does President Obama square his comments today about sun shining and birds singing and no one should be afraid with the Munich attack”, Gingrich tweeted.
The Olympia-Einkaufszentrum, which opened in time for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, bills itself as the largest shopping centre in the southern state of Bavaria.
Germany has so far escaped the kind of large-scale jihadist attacks seen in neighbouring France and the motives and identities of the gunmen were not yet known.
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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.
