Terror grips Munich shopping centre as gunman opens fire
23 July 2016 2:24 PM IST23 July 2016 2:24 PM IST
The shooter had dual citizenship and 'no criminal record', said police officials invetsigating the case.
A teenage German-Iranian gunman killed nine people in a shooting rampage at a busy Munich mall and then committed suicide had likely acted alone.- The attack came just days after a teenage asylum seeker went on a rampage with an axe and a knife on a train on Monday near Wuerzburg, also in Bavaria, injuring five people.
- Shoppers rushed away from the mall, some carrying children in their arms, as the building was surrounded by armed police and emergency vehicles, while helicopters buzzed overhead.
- 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 inside, leaving the streets largely deserted.
- The suspected attacker's body was later found about one kilometre (0.6 miles) from the mall where the shootings took place.
- The dead included youths as well as some of the injured included children.
- Armed with a handgun, the attacker opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant early Friday evening and continued in the street before entering the Olympia mall, killing nine people and wounding 16 in his rampage, according to the latest toll.
- A police spokesman in the Bavarian capital had said earlier that terrorism was suspected, without revealing any immediate indications of an Islamist link.
- The perpetrator was an 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich,' police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters after the rampage.
- The third attack on civilians in Europe in barely a week sent panicked shoppers fleeing the Olympia mall as elite police launched a massive operation to track down what had initially been thought to be up to three assailants.
A teenage German-Iranian gunman killed nine people in a shooting rampage at a busy Munich mall and then committed suicide had likely acted alone.
The shooter had dual citizenship and 'no criminal record', said police officials invetsigating the case.
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