At least six people are believed to have been killed in a shooting rampage in a Munich shopping centre on
Friday, a police source said, and three armed suspects are at large.
The shooting spree began before 1600 GMT at a
McDonald’s restaurant and continued on a nearby
street before the gunmen moved into the mall near the Olympic stadium in the southern German city, a police spokeswoman said.
“There are several dead and injured,” the
spokeswoman said, without confirming the death toll
of six. Munich’s main train station has been evacuated andmetro and bus transport in the city suspended, officials said.Three gunmen were involved in the shooting, according to a police statement, citing witnesses.
There was no information about the possible motives
of the attack. Europe has been on alert for terrorism in the wake of a string of attacks including bombings in neighbouring France and Belgium.
The OEZ shopping centre was surrounded by armed police, while a helicopter buzzed overhead.
‘Stay in your homes’
“There is a major police operation under way in the
shopping centre,” Munich police said on Twitter,
urging people to avoid the area.
Emergency vehicles were seen in the streets outside,
as shoppers rushed away from the mall, some
carrying children in their arms.
“Attention — avoid the neighbourhood around the OEZ.
Stay in your homes. Leave the street,” the Munich
police tweet said.
Germany has so far escaped the kind of large-scale
jihadist attacks seen in France.
But the shooting comes just days after a teenage
asylum seeker went on a rampage with an axe and a
knife on a regional train in Germany on Monday,
injuring five people, two of them critically.
One victim is still fighting for his life, the hospital
treating him said Friday.
‘Inspired’ by IS’
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the
teenager was believed to be a “lone wolf” attacker
who appeared to have been “inspired” by the Islamic
State group but was not a member of the jihadist
network.
Authorities said he shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is
greatest) three times as he ran through the carriage
slashing passengers on the train near the southern
city of Wuerzburg.
The attacker is believed to be either Afghan or
Pakistani and investigators are still trying to determine his identity.
The train rampage triggered calls by politicians in
Bavaria, of which Munich is the capital, to impose an
upper limit on the number of refugees coming into the country.
The assailant had arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Germany in June 2015 and had been staying with a foster family in the region of the attack for the last two weeks.
A record 1.1 million migrants and refugees were let in
to Germany last year, with Syrians making up the
largest group followed by Afghans.
In the latest attack in France, 31-year-old Mohamed
Lahouaiej Bouhlel used a truck to mow down 84
people, including children, in the Riviera city of Nice
last week.
It was the third major attack on French soil in the past
18 months, after the jihadist carnage in Paris in
November and the shootings at satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in January
2015.
In March, Islamic State claimed suicide bomb attacks
at Brussels airport and a city metro station left 32
people dead.
In May in Germany, a mentally unstable 27-year-old
man carried out a knife attack on a regional train in the south of the country, killing one person and injuring three others

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