11:01am: Teenagers among dead
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Mr Andra has confirmed that children and young people are among the injured and dead.
"Among the dead people there are adolescents, among the injured there are children," he said, adding that they would not be revealing the identities of victims until they had reached out to all families affected.
Police currently have no insights yet, if the shooter had contact with IS or any other terror organisations.
Mr Andra said it was still unclear if the perpetrator shot himself or was shot by police gunfire.
10.30pm: Ten people have been confirmed dead and at least 10 injured after a gunman opened fire outside a McDonalds in Munich shopping mall, just before 6pm local time on Friday.
Police have confirmed they are treating the shooting as a suspected terrorist attack.
What We Know
- At 5:50 pm Munich police received reports of shots fired on Hanauer Street, near the Olympia Shopping Center in the Moosach district, northwest of the city center.
- The body of the shooter, who took his own life, has been found. Police initially said they were search for three gunman, after witnesses reported seeing three people with "long guns". They now believe the gunman was the only shooter. Police have given a cautious "all clear".
- A video circulating on social media shows a man dressed in black outside a McDonalds by the roadside, drawing a handgun and shooting at passers-by.
- Munich, Germany's third most populous city after Berlin and Hamburg, was placed in lock down, with the entire public transport system shut down after the attack. The transport system has reopened.
- Authorities declared a state of emergency in Munich, and police urged people to stay home or seek safety indoors.
- Police have urged people not to post tweets or post photos of police operations.
- Authorities have not confirmed a motive for the attack, but police are treating it as a suspected terrorist incident.
What We Don't Know
- The identity of the attacker or the motive for the attack. Police have not been able to confirm any terrorist links.
- There have been no claims of responsibility and no arrests.
- The identities of the victims.
Video of the shooter
A video purporting to show the shooter, dressed in black and firing 20 shots has been posted on Twitter.
The video shows him at the entrance to a McDonald's restaurant, directly outside the shopping centre.
He is shown here in a still-image from the video:
Earlier: Eight people have been killed and many wounded in a shooting at a shopping mall in southern Germany on Friday and the gunmen are still at large, a police spokesman said.
"We are telling the people of Munich there are shooters on the run who are dangerous," a spokesman told reporters, adding that the police were looking for three perpetrators.
"We are urging people to stay indoors."
The shooting started in a fast-food restaurant at 5.52pm on Friday, 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."
Bayerischer Rundfunk, the public broadcaster in Munich, reportedthat a witness saw a gunman opening fire around a cafe and in the subway station under the mall.
An employee inside the mall, who would give only first name Sabiha, said she saw a gunman open fire with what appeared to be some type of rifle. The assailant - described as wearing a black shirt and "some kind of vest" - moved through the corridors before leaving the building, Sabiha told The Washington Post.
Sabiha said she saw at least two people killed and one injured.
"I was lucky because he shot toward the other directions not mine," she said, speaking from a hiding spot inside a storage room.
Authorities are evacuating people from the Olympia mall but many others are still hiding inside.
The Munich police warned people around the mall to stay in their homes and get off the street, amid reports that the gunman was still at large.
"Many shots were fired, I can't say how many but it's been a lot," a mall employee, who declined to be identified, said from the mall in Munich by phone.
"All the people from outside came streaming into the store and I only saw one person on the ground who was so severely injured that he definitely didn't survive,"
"We have no further information, we're just staying in the back in the storage rooms. No police have approached us yet."
The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper also cited unnamed police officials as saying that several people had been killed, but there was no official confirmation from the authorities.
It is the third major act of violence against civilian targets to take place in Western Europe in eight days.
Previous attacks in France and Germany have been claimed by the Islamic State militant group and Munich police suspect it is a terrorist attack.Munich's main railway station is also being evacuated.
The Olympia-Einkaufszentrum, which opened in time for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, bills itself as the largest shopping centre in the southern state of Bavaria.
It's the second attack in Germany in less than a week. On Monday, a teenager wounded four people in an axe-and-knife attack on a regional train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, and another woman outside as he fled.
All survived, although one man from the train remains in life-threatening condition. The attacker, a 17-year-old Afghan, was shot and killed by police.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the train attack, but authorities have said the teen likely acted alone.
New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters
