Jihad terror not seen in Munich since the Olympic slaughter of 1972. This time the targets are not Israelis, but ordinary residents. This carnage is what Merkel has brought upon her own people. The first duty of any state is to protect its own citizens from attack. Merkel has failed.
CNN: female eyewitness at German mall said shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar!”
Obama: ‘The World Has Never Been Less Violent’
Video: Shooting began in front of McDonalds
Reports: SECOND shooting in Munich as gunman opens fire at Metro station.
Police Releases Statement via Facebook “Witnesses Report 3 Different People With Guns”. (thanks to Terror Monitor)
Witness: Munich gunman came out of McDonald’s bathroom and shot children as they ate cnn.it/29SNQ6d pic.twitter.com/IOglli0AWC
-Police urge people to stay in their homes http://thesun.uk
A SECOND shooting has unfolded in a Metro station in Munich, Germany just minutes after a gunman opened fire at a shopping centre in the Bavarian city.
The suspects are still on the run. German police warn people to “please avoid public places.”
Daily Mail reporting this as picture of shooter on car park roof of OEZ Munich shopping mall (source)
Several Dead and Wounded in Munich Mall Shooting, Manhunt Underway,” ABC News, July 22, 2016:
Several people are dead and injured after a shooting at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in Munich, Germany, police said, sparking a manhunt for the shooter.
The suspect is at large, police spokeswoman Claudia Kunzel told ABC News. Kunzel could not confirm if there were one or more shooters.
The shooting began just after 6 p.m. in a McDonald’s in the mall. Police are still evacuating the building.
All subway services in the city were halted after reports that the suspect fled into the subway.
Police ordered people around the shopping center to shelter in place.
UPDATE: Munich in lockdown: ‘Several dead’ and 10 injured in shooting rampage inside a shopping centre as police admit they don’t know where the gunman is or how many shooters there are,” Daily Mail, July 22, 2016:
A number of people have been killed and another 10 people are injured after a gunman went on a shooting rampage
Police operation is ongoing in Munich, with the force warning people to stay in their homes and avoid public spaces
Terrified shoppers were seen running for their lives from the Olympia Shopping Centre after hearing gunshots
Gunman reportedly fled after his shooting spree on the city underground network, which has now been shut down
By Anthony Joseph and Patrick Lion and Alan Hall In Berlin For Mailonline, 22 July 2016
Munich is in lockdown tonight as at least six people have been killed and 10 injured in a shooting rampage involving three gunmen.
A major police operation is ongoing in Munich, around the city’s Olympic Park, with the force warning people to stay in their homes and avoid public spaces as they admitted they don’t know where the gunmen are.
Terrified shoppers were seen running for their lives from the Munich Olympia Shopping Centre, in the district of Moosach, after hearing gunshots.
One picture on social media shows a man lying on the ground with a blanket over him
A video purporting to show the shooter, dressed in black, firing 20 shots has been posted on Twitter. The footage shows him outside a McDonald’s directly outside the shopping centre.
The area around the Munich Olympia Shopping Centre, in the district of Moosach, has been sealed off as emergency services try to control the situation.
Police have confirmed that there a multiple deaths as a result of the incident and German media have reported there may be up to 15 killed.
Tonight, Munich police tweeted: ‘We currently do not know where to find the perpetrators. Watch yourself and avoid to be the public’.
A second shooting has taken place near Marienplatz subway station, which is just four miles from the Olympic Park area.
Munich Police said in a statement: ‘At around 5.50pm (local time) today there were witnesses who called the police and said there was a shooting at the Hanauer Street.
‘The shooting moved from that street to the shopping centre. The witnesses said there were three different people with weapons.’
Armed police move past onlooking media responding to a shooting at a shopping centre in Munich
Armed policemen arrive at a shopping centre in which a shooting was reported in Munich, southern Germany
A police reporter for Bavarian Radio said police were moving people off the streets in central Munich as they search for the perpetrators.
‘All of the police forces are at the shopping centre and at the official places in Munich as well and they’re calling out that nobody’s allowed to go to the official places,’ the reporter, Lena Deutch, told the BBC.
‘They are trying to close everything down because we do not know where this person who’s been doing the shooting is at the moment.’
People were seen running from the shopping mall to get away from the incident
A video grab of the scene around the Olympia shopping centre in the district of Moosach of Munich
The shopping centre is next to the Munich Olympic Stadium, where the Palestinian militant group Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and eventually killed them during the 1972 Olympic Games