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    At Least 10 Dead, Including Suspected Gunman, in Shooting at Shopping Center, Police Say

    Police said the suspected gunman, 18, killed himself and appears to have acted alone in the Friday shooting at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum mall, adding that three men seen fleeing were not involved.


    By Anton Troianovski and Ruth Bender in Berlin and Christopher Alessi in Munich

    Updated July 22, 2016 10:09 p.m. ET


    A lone gunman killed nine people in and around a Munich shopping mall in a shooting spree police described as a possible terror attack, putting the southern German city in lockdown during a nearly eight-hour manhunt until police said the attacker had killed himself.

    Heavily armed police from across the country combed Munich Friday night, searching for what witnesses had said were multiple shooters and responding to emergency calls that turned out to be false alarms. After 1 a.m., police said the gunman, whom they described as an 18-year old dual German-Iranian citizen who had lived in Munich for at least two years, was dead and appeared to have acted alone.

    The shooter’s motives weren’t immediately clear, and officials said they were considering all possibilities, including Islamist and right-wing terrorism. The man hadn’t been known to police, they said.

    A video posted online shows a man, who police said they believe was the shooter, standing on the roof of a parking garage and in a shouting match with a person filming him. A voice that appears to be the shooter’s yells out an obscenity about Turks and says he had been “in treatment.” Later, the same voice yells: “I’m German!” Police verified the video but didn’t comment on what was said or what it revealed, if anything, about motive.

    Police said 21 people were wounded in the attack, three of them seriously.



    Late into the night, police officers and other officials were consoling friends and relatives of the attack’s victims at a KFC restaurant near the shopping mall. At least a dozen people huddled inside, while more stood on the parking lot, their sobs audible from the street.

    “There were children and teenagers that are dead,” said the restaurant’s manager, who was pacing outside. “Why do people do such things?

    The assault, described by police as a “rampage,” began shortly before 6 p.m. at a McDonald’s across the street from the shopping mall. The assailant opened fire with a pistol, then moved toward the mall and continued to fire, where the nine people were killed.

    Plainclothes police shot at the gunman, but he managed to escape, Munich Police Chief Hubertus Andrä said. He was found in a nearby street, dead of an apparent suicide, less than three hours after the shooting began.

    But a car that left the scene at high speed led police to think there might be additional suspects at large. That triggered a citywide manhunt involving a total of 2,300 police officers, including an elite antiterrorism unit from neighboring Austria. The car was later found and police determined it had nothing to do with the shooting, Mr. Andrä said.

    “This is one of the biggest challenges that the Munich police has faced in recent years,” said police spokesman Marcus da Gloria Martins, adding that police were treating the attack as terrorism.

    “If you think about what has happened in Europe in recent weeks, then it is justified to speak of the worst-case scenario,” Mr. Martins said.

    The attack was the deadliest in Germany since a 1980 bombing by a neo-Nazi terrorist, also in Munich, that left 12 dead.

    As many as 100 witnesses were being interviewed by the police’s crisis response team, Mr. Martins said. The police asked people in the area to upload smartphone photos and videos to a special website and to avoid publishing them online.

    Subway, bus and tram service were shut down, and trains were halted to the central station, which was evacuated. Munich hospitals activated an emergency alert.

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on vacation Friday. Peter Altmaier, her chief of staff, said Ms. Merkel was being continuously informed about the situation and that senior government officials would meet on Saturday to discuss the situation.

    “We were able to foil a multitude of attacks thus far and have contributed to preserving Germany from bigger attacks,” Mr. Altmaier said on German TV. “The attack in Munich today we unfortunately weren’t able to prevent.”

    President Barack Obama, commenting on the attack at a previously planned White House meeting on law enforcement, pledged U.S. support for Germany and called the tragedy a reminder that “our way of life” depends on law enforcement.

    Television images Friday showed police with assault weapons jogging through Munich streets. As the manhunt continued, police pleaded via Twitter that people not share images of police activity.

    “Don’t help the attackers!!!” the police said on Twitter.

    The Olympia Shopping Center where Friday’s shooting occurred is in a part of northern Munich that was reconstructed to host the facilities for the 1972 Summer Olympic Games. Those Games were marked by violence when Palestinian terrorists kidnapped and killed 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team.

    The area around the shopping center is one of the poorer neighborhoods of Munich, with a large number of public housing blocks and a large community of first-, second- or third-generation immigrants from Turkey.

    The shopping center, with stores including H&M, Benetton and Timberland, draws a mixed crowd of middle- and lower-middle-class German and immigrant shoppers.

    A worker at a restaurant across the street from the shopping center mall said by phone that the police had called and asked for the doors to be locked.

    “No one can come in here anymore,” the man said. “And the guests cannot leave.”

    Some 30 people fled into a nearby store selling traditional Bavarian clothing, said a worker reached there by phone. “The ladies and gentlemen here are in shock,” she said.

    People reported scenes of chaos and panic as rumors of additional shootings spread. At Munich’s main Marienplatz square, the city hall and the restaurant inside it absorbed some 250 to 300 people from the square so police could search the area, the restaurant’s manager said.

    The shooting comes just four days after a refugee attacked people with an ax on a train outside Würzburg, leaving five people severely injured. The attacker, who was shot and killed by police, was registered as an Afghan refugee a year ago and lived with a foster family in a Bavarian village.

    The attack shocked a country that so far had been spared a major terror attack despite deadly attacks in Belgium and France. On Wednesday, Ms. Merkel called the ax attack an “unimaginably savage deed.”

    Late last year, Munich police warned of a possible terror attack on New Year’s Eve by suicide bombers with links to Islamic State. The police evacuated train stations for that evening.

    It remained unclear late Friday if the shooting in Munich was related to Islamic terrorism. If so, it would be the latest in a series of terrorist killings in Europe since early 2015. In January of that year, extremists claiming allegiance to Islamic terrorists killed 17 people, most of them at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and a kosher grocery store.

    In November, terror swept Paris when Islamic State operatives launched a string of suicide bombings and machine-gun attacks that left 130 people dead and the country in shock. The terror group also claimed responsibility for attacks that hit Belgium this March, when suicide bombers killed 32 people in Brussels airport and a metro station.

    Another major attack happened just a week ago, when a driver barreled down a promenade in Nice, killing 84 people who had gathered to celebrate Bastille Day. The driver, who was killed, appeared to have planned the attack for some time, a French antiterror prosecutor said on Thursday, adding he may have embraced Islamic extremism as early as the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

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    Munich gunman planned attack for a year
    By Tim Hume, CNN - Updated 2314 GMT (0714 HKT) July 24, 2016

    The gunman who killed nine people in a rampage in Munich on Friday was obsessed with mass shootings and appeared to have planned the attack for a year, officials said. "He appears to have planned this act since last summer," Robert Heimberger, president of the Bavarian state criminal police office, said at a press conference Sunday.

    "He completely occupied himself with this act of rampage."

    Police have not named the attacker. They said he was an 18-year-old with dual German and Iranian nationality who was born and raised in Munich. Neighbors told CNN Saturday that a teen named Ali Sonboly lived in an apartment searched by police, the same name reported by German media outlets.

    On Sunday, a 16-year-old Afghan believed to have been a friend of the attacker was arrested on "suspicion of being an accessory," Munich police said.

    Police said Saturday the attacker was a mentally troubled individual who extensively researched rampage killings, and had no apparent links to terror groups and no political motive.

    On Sunday, investigators revealed he left behind a long written statement on his computer, which was still being analyzed. They said they found photographs on his camera showing he visited the German town of Winnenden, the site of a deadly 2009 school shooting.

    Earlier, officials said they found in the gunman's belongings numerous documents on mass killings, including a book entitled "Rampage in My Mind -- Why Students Kill."

    Officials believe there likely was significance in the timing of the attack, which came five years to the day since Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, many of them attendees at a youth camp.


    Gunman had received psychiatric treatment

    The gunman had also been under psychiatric care in a hospital for two months in 2015, officials said Sunday.

    Documents found in his home confirmed that he suffered from mental illness, including depression and anxiety, Munich prosecutor Thomas Steinkraus-Koch said Sunday.

    Police found medication in his home and are trying to determine whether he had been taking it. the shooter had a history of having been bullied by his peers, and in 2012 had been injured in an attack by other young people that had been reported to police.

    A search of his belongings revealed he was also an avid player of first-person shooter video games, including "Counter-Strike," officials said Sunday.


    Police secure an underground transit station after a deadly shooting in Munich, Germany, on Friday, July 22. At least eight people were killed at a nearby shopping mall in what police officials said "looks like a terror attack." Police are still looking for the gunmen.

    People lured to attack site

    The deadly attack began in a McDonald's outside Munich's Olympia mall on Friday evening, bringing Germany's third-largest city to a standstill before the gunman was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

    The rampage also left 35 people injured, 10 of them seriously, officials said.

    The shooter used a fake Facebook account to lure people to the McDonald's by offering free food, police said Sunday. Earlier, they said he may have hacked another person's account, but they clarified on Sunday that it was an entirely fake account set up in another person's name.

    Police are investigating whether the attacker's friend who was arrested was aware of the Facebook post or if he had prior knowledge of the attack and failed to notify police. The 16-year-old was interviewed based on his relationship with the suspect and gave conflicting statements, Munich police said.

    Heimberger said the attacker appeared to have illegally purchased the pistol used -- a 9 mm Glock 17 -- through the "dark web," a shadowy part of the Internet that is not discoverable by standard search engines and is used for anonymous, illicit transactions.

    Police believed it was an older weapon that had been reassembled, and were still working to establish where the attacker had obtained the 300 rounds of ammunition found in his rucksack.

    Victims mostly teenagers

    Most of the victims in Munich in their teens: Three victims were 14 years old, two were 15, one was 17 and one was 19. A 20-year-old and a 45-year-old were also killed.

    The victims were all German nationals from the Munich area, officials said. Turkey's Foreign Ministry said three of the victims were also Turkish nationals.

    Another of the victims was also a Greek citizen, Greece's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

    The shooting shook Europe after a spate of recent terror attacks on the continent, including the stabbing of passengers on a German train by a man who claimed to be inspired by ISIS and the killing of 84 people in a truck attack in Nice, France.

    CNN's Schams Elwazer contributed to this report.

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    One Dead, Several Injured by Explosion in Germany

    Mayor of Ansbach says blast was apparently caused by an explosive device

    By Anton Troianovski
    July 24, 2016 8:18 p.m. ET


    BERLIN — A man apparently set off a bomb in the German town of Ansbach on Sunday evening, killing himself and injuring at least 10 people, police said.

    The blast occurred shortly after 10 p.m. outside the entrance to an open-air concert attended by 2,000 people, Ansbach Mayor Carda Seidel said at a press conference. The people inside the concert venue were safely evacuated, she said.

    “It was apparently an explosive device,” Ms. Seidel said.

    The man who died was believed to be the person who caused the explosion, police said.

    Ansbach officials said none of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening.

    Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann was on his way to Ansbach following the blast, a spokesman said.

    “We currently assume that this explosion was brought about on purpose,” the spokesman said.

    Ansbach, a town of 40,000 people in the southern state of Bavaria, hosts an open-air concert series in the city center called Ansbach Open. Sunday’s event, featuring three German artists, was scheduled to be the last of three nights of concerts.

    Germany has been on edge amid a spate of terrorism and high-profileviolence across Europe. On July 14, a man rammed a truck into a crowd in Nice, France, killing 84; on July 18, a teenager registered as an Afghan refugee injured five people with an ax in Würzburg, Germany; and on Friday, an 18-year-old who officials say was obsessed with mass shootings gunned down nine people in Munich.
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