Timeline of Munich shooting at a shopping mall

A spokesman of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office refused to directly confirm the minister’s words but he said that “there are some reasons” to believe that the shooter really had such problems in school. “Suddenly I heard shots”, said Ferdinand Bozorgzad, who lives in a high-rise building next to the Olympic Shopping Center mall.

Bayri described trying in vain to keep the teen alive until help arrived. “I have no idea if he did anything bad elsewhere”. ‘The ambulance is already coming.

The dead included three “youngsters”, police said. Although authorities said to was too soon to talk about any direct link.

A total of 10 people died in the shooting, including the gunman who killed himself. “I’m German” the suspected attacker said before eventually firing shots.

Among the nine killed were three Turks, three Kosovans and a Greek national, according to their foreign ministries.

The attack was the third on civilians in Western Europe in eight days.

He adds: “That act of violence has touched our hearts and Europe’s consciousness”. Munich police declared an “akute terrorlage” or “acute terrorist situation”, triggering the shutdown of major roads, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.

De Maiziere said there were indications the gunman had been bullied by his peers.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel referenced the ongoing public anxieties over the security climate as she expressed her condolences at a news conference in Berlin after a security meeting Saturday.

Police officer holds a gun near the Olympia shopping centre after a shooting was reported there in Munich, southern Germany, Friday, July 22, 2016.

On Friday, President Obama issued a statement of solidarity to the German people.

“Such an evening and such a night is hard to bear”, she said of the Munich attack.

It was the second attack this week in Germany. (Germany) will stand up to this. “It can count on France’s friendship and cooperation”. Three of the victims were female, officials said.

Initial reports that up to three gunmen may have been involved in the attack turned out to be incorrect, police said.

Police say the Munich-born gunman had been receiving treatment for depression.

The shooter broke into a girl’s Facebook account, and lured people to the location with discount offers, said Robert Heimberger, head of Bavaria’s police.

The gunman who killed nine people in a shooting spree in Munich on Friday was a school student born and raised in the city who was believed to have been in psychiatric care and had taken an intense interest in mass shootings, officials said Saturday.

Police said the gunman’s body was found about 1km from the mall.

He said German investigators saw an “obvious link” between Friday’s killings and Breivik’s massacre of 77 people in a bomb attack in Oslo and a shooting rampage on the nearby island of Utoya exactly five years earlier.

Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae says “no evidence” of links to the Islamic State group has been found in the home and room of the Munich shooting suspect.

“Documents on shooting sprees were found, so the perpetrator obviously researched this subject intensively”.

UPDATED 4:08 p.m. ET: Multiple people have been killed and several others injured in a reported “shooting rampage” in a shopping mall in Munich, according to Reuters.

“Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and all German people”.

Video obtained by The Associated Press from German news agency NonstopNews showed two bodies with sheets draped over them not far from the fast food restaurant. “The operation of public transportation service has been stopped”.