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
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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
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 otherwiseQuote:
Originally Posted by lecale
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/europe...inkId=26847705
According to one witness he shouted "Allahu Akbar"
A lot of reports are contradictory so lets wait and see
deaths rise to eight
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36870874
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.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoAREIjXEAAC3PG.jpg
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.
The police are going to hold a news conference at 2 am (8 pm EST)
The shooter is dead
lecale, DW always has good coverage
http://www.dw.com/en/munich-shooting...tes/a-19421907
From the Guardian:
Quote:
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.