'Shots fired' in Munich shopping centre

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More details to be added over time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36870874

Shots have been fired in a Munich shopping centre and a police operation is under way.

Reports say the area round the shopping centre in the district of Moosach has been sealed off, but details of the incident are sketchy.

Several people are reported to have been killed, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper quotes police as saying.

The security forces have been on alert after a migrant stabbed five people on a train in Bavaria on Monday.

The authorities had warned of the danger of further attacks.

Reports speak of one attacker. Helicopters are said to be flying over the scene and workers being unable to leave their shops.

Munich police are telling people to avoid the area.

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Here's the Guardian.

Suddeutsche Zeitung cites a police spokesperson as saying several people have been killed and more injured in the shootout at the Olympia shopping mall.

The paper said a large police operation was underway and that the police was “assuming there was just a single perpetrator”.

An employee at the nearby DM drugstore told the paper by phone that she heard “shots and saw injured people ... We can not go outside”.

The Guardian has not independently confirmed these details.

[I_am_not_mafia]

I have relatives living in Munich. I used to live in Garching bei München before I moved back to Scotland. That's the north of Munich as well.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

It's almost becoming normal now in Europe. I fear for our continent.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Video of the attacker shows him shooting at people walking towards the McDonald's at the shopping Mall. Police reports that attacker/s are still at large.

Disgusting human being, I'm ashamed to be of the same species.

[vorlon13]

Possibly another attack under way in downtown railway station.

Authorities advice everyone to get indoors.

[vorlon13]

Witnesses report 3 with guns.

Obama is being briefed now.

[RobertE]

Here is the guy and here is the twitter account of the one who filmed it, who is obviously in on it, otherwise why would he film some guy?

https://twitter.com/ismat1673/status/756539612470861824

[vorlon13]

US Consulate to all Americans in Munich:

Shelter in place.

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Islamic scum.