Attacks in the city mall munich, nine people were killed and several others injured victims
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Munich’s Olympia shopping centre was as busy as it usually is on a Friday evening. Commuters were picking up groceries for the weekend, while families were eating at its numerous cafes and restaurants beneath the glass dome of its central atrium.
At 5.50pm local time, the peace and quiet – or at least the normal hustle and bustle – would be shattered. Terrorism on a mass scale was being unleashed on Germany.
“There is a major police operation under way in the shopping centre,” Munich police said on Twitter in the first inkling of the horrors that were unfolding at the Olympia Einkaufszentrum [OEZ] shopping centre, close to the Olympic stadium.
Another tweet reinforced the message: “Attention – avoid the neighbourhood around the OEZ. Stay in your homes. Leave the street.” Munich was under attack.
Video footage released on the internet appeared to show one gunman, dressed in black, possibly with an ammunition belt draped over his shoulder, walking out of a McDonald’s restaurant, opposite the north-west entrance to the shopping centre.
He lifts what seems to be a handgun and takes aim, firing in excess of 20 shots at a group of five passers-by.
What happened next is unclear; their fate unknown. The video footage, posted on Facebook by Felix Urbauer, is shaky and the camera phone’s holder runs for his life. In reality, the chances of the gunman’s targets surviving the onslaught is slim.
Mr Urbauer later posted: “I am fine... I post this so you know what this guy looks like. Stay safe.” Inside the shopping centre, a gun battle raged. Reports suggested at least three gunmen, armed with “long rifles”, were on the rampage inside the Olympia centre itself.
Staff and shoppers dived for cover. “Many shots were fired, I can’t say how many but it’s been a lot,” said a terrified employee, speaking by telephone while hiding in the shop’s storage room.
The shop worker, who declined to be identified, told Reuters: “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.”
Another shop worker, Lynn Stein, told CNN: “I was going to buy something while my co-worker was still in the shop. People started running. I went outside as well, more people were running outside. I think I heard more shots. Then it sounded like he went to the car park next to the mall – several shots there.
“I saw somebody lying on the floor, presumably dead and there’s a woman over them, crying.”
Other footage showed shoppers running for their lives as sirens blared.
A body, covered by a blanket, was photographed lying on the floor by a barrier to a car park. Police, some dressed in full combat clothing, flooded the area.
The shopping centre, close to the scene of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, was put into lockdown.
Eckard Kwerner, a reporter with German television who was at the scene, said: “Police are everywhere, it’s a massive police presence. They’re wearing bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons, helmets. There’s a helicopter hovering above the area.”
An electrical shop next to the shopping centre was used as a makeshift hospital to treat the casualties. Police confirmed there were at least eight dead while German media have reported up to 15 killed.
Munich police would later issue a statement – about two and a quarter hours after the initial attack – reporting that they were still looking for at least three gunmen had approached the shopping centre, firing from Hanauer Strasse and Riesstrasse before entering the shopping centre.
At around 10:35 local time police said they were investigating whether a ninth dead body, found 1km from the scene, was one of the shooters.
The transport system was immediately shut down, including Munich’s main railway station. The metro and bus network were closed, too.
Reports suggested taxi drivers were bring told by police to avoid the city centre and not to pick up any passengers.
The lockdown may have come too late. Some 45 minutes after the attack on the shopping centre, reports emerged of shooting near Marienplatz subway station, 10 stops from the Olympic Park area.
Although they turned out to be erroneous, with the police saying the attack was confined to the shopping centre.
To add to the confusion, footage released on to the internet appeared to show one gunman, dressed in black, prowling the rooftop of the shopping centre car park.
He was later identified by the police as an 18-year old German-Iranian from Munich.
The gunman could be heard shouting: “I am a German” and screaming “F---ing foreigners”. Incredibly, eyewitnesses scream back at him, swearing at him and hurling abuse. One shouts at the gunman, from the safety of another rooftop: “You a-------. Now I have to buy a weapon to [unintelligible]...”
The gunman's shouts raised the prospect that the attack, initially assumed to be a coordinated Isil-style terrorist raid, could have been perpetrated by German neo-Nazis.
Munich police said that the motive or explanation for the crime were completely unclear.
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“There is a major police operation under way in the shopping centre,” Munich police said on Twitter in the first inkling of the horrors that were unfolding at the Olympia Einkaufszentrum [OEZ] shopping centre, close to the Olympic stadium.
Another tweet reinforced the message: “Attention – avoid the neighbourhood around the OEZ. Stay in your homes. Leave the street.” Munich was under attack.
Video footage released on the internet appeared to show one gunman, dressed in black, possibly with an ammunition belt draped over his shoulder, walking out of a McDonald’s restaurant, opposite the north-west entrance to the shopping centre.
He lifts what seems to be a handgun and takes aim, firing in excess of 20 shots at a group of five passers-by.
What happened next is unclear; their fate unknown. The video footage, posted on Facebook by Felix Urbauer, is shaky and the camera phone’s holder runs for his life. In reality, the chances of the gunman’s targets surviving the onslaught is slim.
Mr Urbauer later posted: “I am fine... I post this so you know what this guy looks like. Stay safe.” Inside the shopping centre, a gun battle raged. Reports suggested at least three gunmen, armed with “long rifles”, were on the rampage inside the Olympia centre itself.
Staff and shoppers dived for cover. “Many shots were fired, I can’t say how many but it’s been a lot,” said a terrified employee, speaking by telephone while hiding in the shop’s storage room.
The shop worker, who declined to be identified, told Reuters: “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.”
Another shop worker, Lynn Stein, told CNN: “I was going to buy something while my co-worker was still in the shop. People started running. I went outside as well, more people were running outside. I think I heard more shots. Then it sounded like he went to the car park next to the mall – several shots there.
“I saw somebody lying on the floor, presumably dead and there’s a woman over them, crying.”
Other footage showed shoppers running for their lives as sirens blared.
A body, covered by a blanket, was photographed lying on the floor by a barrier to a car park. Police, some dressed in full combat clothing, flooded the area.
The shopping centre, close to the scene of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, was put into lockdown.
Eckard Kwerner, a reporter with German television who was at the scene, said: “Police are everywhere, it’s a massive police presence. They’re wearing bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons, helmets. There’s a helicopter hovering above the area.”
An electrical shop next to the shopping centre was used as a makeshift hospital to treat the casualties. Police confirmed there were at least eight dead while German media have reported up to 15 killed.
Munich police would later issue a statement – about two and a quarter hours after the initial attack – reporting that they were still looking for at least three gunmen had approached the shopping centre, firing from Hanauer Strasse and Riesstrasse before entering the shopping centre.
At around 10:35 local time police said they were investigating whether a ninth dead body, found 1km from the scene, was one of the shooters.
The transport system was immediately shut down, including Munich’s main railway station. The metro and bus network were closed, too.
Reports suggested taxi drivers were bring told by police to avoid the city centre and not to pick up any passengers.
The lockdown may have come too late. Some 45 minutes after the attack on the shopping centre, reports emerged of shooting near Marienplatz subway station, 10 stops from the Olympic Park area.
Although they turned out to be erroneous, with the police saying the attack was confined to the shopping centre.
To add to the confusion, footage released on to the internet appeared to show one gunman, dressed in black, prowling the rooftop of the shopping centre car park.
He was later identified by the police as an 18-year old German-Iranian from Munich.
The gunman could be heard shouting: “I am a German” and screaming “F---ing foreigners”. Incredibly, eyewitnesses scream back at him, swearing at him and hurling abuse. One shouts at the gunman, from the safety of another rooftop: “You a-------. Now I have to buy a weapon to [unintelligible]...”
The gunman's shouts raised the prospect that the attack, initially assumed to be a coordinated Isil-style terrorist raid, could have been perpetrated by German neo-Nazis.
Munich police said that the motive or explanation for the crime were completely unclear.
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