According to the reports that the body of man found one kilometer away from the mall where the shooting took place.
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The police chief said there were no immediate similarities between Friday’s attack and the incident on the train near the southern German city of Wuerzburg.
In May, a mentally unstable 27-year-old man carried out a knife attack on a regional train just southeast of Munich, killing one person and injuring three others. Armed with a handgun, the attacker opened fire at a nearby McDonalds restaurant, before carrying out the rampage in Olympia Mall.
In a statement, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that the USA condemned “the apparent terrorist attack” and would “make available any resources that would assist their investigation”.
Authorities believe the attacker was an 18-year-old German-Iranian who had lived in Munich “for a long time”.
Munich police said on Facebook that witnesses reported seeing “three different gunmen” but it was not clear whether they were referring to three separate shooters or the same shooter at three different locations. “Boom, boom, boom, I heard, and then I saw all the injured”. And he’s still killing the children. The children were sitting to eat. Germany’s Muencher Abendzeitung has reported that up to 15 people may have been killed.
Friday is also the fifth anniversary of the massacre by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway in which he killed 77 people. More than 2,000 officers, including the federal police, were mobilized to respond.
An employee who was inside the mall told Reuters by phone that many shots were fired.
A man who said he worked at one of the shops in the mall, described how he came face-to-face with the shooter.
Munich’s main train station was evacuated and metro and bus transport in the city suspended for several hours while residents were ordered to stay in their homes, leaving the streets largely deserted.
Several highways north of Munich were also sealed off by police.
“The motives for this abhorrent act have not been completely clarified. We still have contradictory clues”.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was being regularly briefed on the attack, said her chief of staff, Peter Altmaier.
Twitter grieved the loss of lives in the Munich rampage in Germnay on Friday.
It was the second attack this week in Germany.
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The shopping mall is located next to the Olympic Stadium in the city where 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were murdered by the Black September Palestinian militant group during the Olympic Games in 1972.
