Mass shooting at Munich shopping mall leaves multiple victims dead


Police secure a street near mass shooting in Munich, July 22, 2016. REUTERS

Reports of yet another mass shooting, this one at a shopping center in Germany. In Munich late Friday afternoon, a man with a gun shot people at mall in Munich. Local news reports that several people were killed, and several more wounded.

Quoting police sources, Agence-France Presse reports there are “likely six dead” with “three suspected gunmen.”

“It is not clear whether there is one or many shooters,” a Munich police spokesman said.

“Right now, we don’t know where the perpetrator or perpetrators are,” Munich police said. “Please be careful and avoid public areas.”

This is still an active police operation. Police don't know the motive. It may be a terrorist attack inspired by or organized by ISIS or another such hate group. It may be a lone wacko with a gun.

One shooter was captured on video and is still at large after shooting people inside a McDonald's, and inside the Olympia shopping mall, and a parking garage, said police spokeswoman Claudia Küntzel. Rail, subway, bus service are all interrupted, and people are advised to stay away from the area.

From the New York Times:

The shooting started in a fast-food restaurant at 5:52 p.m., according to initial police accounts. The police ordered people to stay away from the shopping mall, the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum. They shut down traffic and issued an extraordinary appeal for people to avoid public places, including the subway system, suggesting that the gunman might still be at large. On Twitter and on television, witnesses reported hearing sirens and police helicopters.

“The situation is still completely confusing,” Thomas Baumann, a deputy spokesman of the Munich police, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the German press agency. “It is not clear whether is one or many shooters.”

CNN has early video from the scene.