Munich -A manhunt was underway Friday for a shooter or shooters who opened fire at a shopping mall in Munich, killing six people and wounding others, police and media reports said. The city transit system shut down and police asked people to stay inside their homes and otherwise avoid public places.
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“At the moment no culprit has been arrested,” police in the Bavarian capital said on social media. “The search is taking place at high speed.”
The city of Munich sent a smartphone alert telling people to stay indoors and German rail company Deutsche Bahn stopped train traffic to Munich’s main station.
Police said witnesses reported seeing three people with guns near the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall.
Munich police spokeswoman Claudia Kuenzel told The Associated Press there were “several dead and wounded” in the shooting. She could not provide exact numbers. Bavarian public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk and Munich-based Focus magazine, citing sources they did not identify, said six people were killed.
Munich police spokesman Thomas Baumann told German news agency dpa the attack started at a fast food restaurant in the mall shortly before 6 p.m. local time.
Bayrischer Rundfunk reported that shops in the center of Munich had closed with customers inside though police said reports of shots fired at a location downtown had been a false alarm.
Police responded in large numbers to the mall in the northern part of Munich, not far from the city’s Olympic Stadium in the Moosach district of the Bavarian capital.
It was the second attack in Germany in less than a week. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan wounded four people in an ax-and-knife attack on a regional train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, and another woman outside as he fled. All survived, although one man from the train remains in life-threatening condition. The attacker was shot and killed by police.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the train attack, but authorities have said the teen likely acted alone.
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So Justice minister Haas thinks “Germany remains a possible target” ??
A possible target??
Does he live in a cave somewhere?
Thank you Ms Merkel for letting in, at last count about 1 million “refugees” !
But Donald Trump is still persona non grada in most of western Europe.
Europe as we know it is over, and if Barry O and his henchman Hillary and Kerry (who by the way announced this morning that global warming is a greater threat than Radical Islam) have their way, America can’t be far behind.
European liberal and progressive countries: your enemies have arrived!
all these terrorist attacks in europe is because they are occupying palestinian land ,there must be a two state solution for once and for all, they should split europe in half and give half to the arabs , and then there will be peace for once and for all!!!!
Nauseating to see publish photos of the grandchildren of nazis holding submachine guns.