Terror Attack in Munich Germany

[gryphon]

Gunman have opened fire in Munich in a mall and other areas and are now on the loose.

Praying for Munich

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz4FA8DDmx5

[lecale]

Seems it's a right-wing extremist who said "f*** foreigners" before he started firing.

It's also the 5th anniversary of the Anders Breivik attack.

[gryphon]

Seems it's a right-wing extremist who said "f*** foreigners" before he started firing.

It's also the 5th anniversary of the Anders Breivik attack.

Witnesses said otherwise

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/europe...inkId=26847705

According to one witness he shouted "Allahu Akbar"

[gryphon]

A lot of reports are contradictory so lets wait and see

[Natalka]

deaths rise to eight

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36870874

[Natalka]

a ninth body may be a gunman

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ooting-germany

My husband has a sister in Germany, I know where they live (an hour away from Munich), but not where there adult children live with their families elsewhere in the country -

Prayers for the families of the dead and injured.

[lecale]

I've been following the Guardian live feed https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...ng-centre-live and it seems there is not a lot of information coming out.

(EDIT: I actually wrote this post because they had raised the death toll to 10, so there, there's something.)

A big mystery on who has been behind this - only CNN reported the Allahu Akbar claim it seems and the European media is focussing on the cursing against foreigners.

The gunman on the roof of the parkade had a verbal battle with someone and he yelled that he was German and that he came from the welfare district...I wonder if it is a second-generation Muslim because that would fit the pattern of other ISIL attacks.

I have even checked out the big paper in Munich http://www.sueddeutsche.de/ and there is not much detail there.

I hope things become clearer soon.

[lecale]

The police are going to hold a news conference at 2 am (8 pm EST)

[gryphon]

The shooter is dead

[Natalka]

lecale, DW always has good coverage

http://www.dw.com/en/munich-shooting...tes/a-19421907

[lecale]

From the Guardian:

The attacker was an 18-year-old German of Iranian descent. His body was found at 8:30pm local time, having shot himself.


There were 10 dead, including the attacker, police say, and 21 wounded.


The gunman had lived in Munich for a long time, police chief Hubertus Andra tells the press conference, and had no previous criminal record.