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Terror grips Munich shopping centre as gunman opens fire

The shooter had dual citizenship and 'no criminal record', said police officials invetsigating the case.

By :  naren pulloor
Update: 2016-07-23 08:54 GMT
A teenage German-Iranian gunman killed nine people in a shooting rampage at a busy Munich mall and then committed suicide had likely acted alone.
The attack came just days after a teenage asylum seeker went on a rampage with an axe and a knife on a train on Monday near Wuerzburg, also in Bavaria, injuring five people.
Shoppers rushed away from the mall, some carrying children in their arms, as the building was surrounded by armed police and emergency vehicles, while helicopters buzzed overhead.
Munich's main train station was evacuated and metro and bus transport in the city suspended for several hours while residents were ordered to stay inside, leaving the streets largely deserted.
The suspected attacker's body was later found about one kilometre (0.6 miles) from the mall where the shootings took place.
The dead included youths as well as some of the injured included children.
Armed with a handgun, the attacker opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant early Friday evening and continued in the street before entering the Olympia mall, killing nine people and wounding 16 in his rampage, according to the latest toll.
A police spokesman in the Bavarian capital had said earlier that terrorism was suspected, without revealing any immediate indications of an Islamist link.
The perpetrator was an 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich,' police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters after the rampage.
The third attack on civilians in Europe in barely a week sent panicked shoppers fleeing the Olympia mall as elite police launched a massive operation to track down what had initially been thought to be up to three assailants.
The shooter had dual citizenship and 'no criminal record', said police officials invetsigating the case.

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