Shots fired at Munich shopping center; ‘major police operation’ responds

Munich police said there appears to be at least one suspect, but authorities would not confirm if any suspects are in custody or on the loose. German news magazine Focus said a gunman had shot himself in the head.

Police officers respond to a shooting at the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall on July 22 in Munich.

Witnesses told media outlets that “many shots were fired” and that employees and shoppers in the Olympia shopping centre had run to try to find safety. None of the victims died, but police did kill the attacker. Breivik is a hero for far-right extremists in Europe and America.

The newspaper Abendzeitung reports, however, said one person was killed and 10 injured. One said the man had blonde hair, was not carrying a weapon but had a suitcase.

People were seen fleeing from the building in another video posted on social media. Continue to shelter in place, contact your family members to let them know you are safe, and follow the instructions of police and emergency personnel.

Major roads in the Bavarian city were largely empty as special police teams swarmed the area and helicopters carrying snipers swept over rooftops looking for as many as three perpetrators carrying long guns.

“The police are describing this as an active shooting scene”, she says.

As police hunt those responsible for a deadly shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Munich, they are already calling it a terror attack.

It was also not far from where Palestinian attackers from the terrorist group Black September took 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage in the Olympic Village in 1972, eventually killing them all.

Friday’s attack took place a week after a 17-year-old asylum-seeker wounded passengers on a German train in an axe rampage.

The security forces in the country have already been on alert after a migrant stabbed five people on a train in Bavaria on Monday.