re: Breaking: Shots fired in mall in Munich. Reports of Multiple Locations Now

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I'm not taking one side or the other, but eye witness testimony is notoriously awful.

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Are you referencing the breitbart article that a man was shouting "Allah ackbar"?

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armed and masked but dressed otherwise unassumingly in T-shirts, trainers and shorts

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“Sad news: The number of dead rises to eight,” say police in a tweet:

Polizei München ? @PolizeiMuenchen
Eine traurige Nachricht: Die Zahl der Toten steigt auf 8.#Schießerei #oez #münchen

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What we do know
At least six people have been killed and an unknown number injured in a shooting in Munich. Police have referred to the incident as a terror attack.

At 5.52pm, gunshots were fired at a McDonald’s near the Olympia shopping centre (OEZ) in the northern Moosach area of the Bavarian capital.

A video appears to show one of the gunman on the rooftop carpark of the shopping centre.

A major police operation is underway. Police have said that up to three suspects armed with rifles are being hunted. No one has been arrested so far and officials have no indication of the attackers’ whereabouts.
Police have said all shoppers have now left the shopping centre.

The German government has set up a crisis response unit.
Residents have been warned via Munich’s smartphone warning system to avoid public places, stay in their homes where possible and turn on the TV and radio.
Munich central station and underground system is closed and has been evacuated. Motorists on the motorway into Munich have been asked to clear the road for police and emergency service vehicles.

Hospitals throughout Munich are on emergency alert and in “catastrophe mode”.

Police have said they could not confirm earlier reports of one or two other shootings elsewhere in the city, including in a large square known locally as Stachus.

What we don’t know:
No claim of responsibility has been made and there is no indication so far of the attackers’ motives.

It is not yet clear how many attackers opened fire or whether the shootings, described as a “rampage” by police, amounted to a coordinated or planned attack.

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Speaking at the United Nations in New York, Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has said:

Everybody is shocked and saddened by what has taken place. Our thoughts are very much with the victims, their families, with the people of Munich, and the people of Germany more widely.

If, as seems very likely, this is another terrorist incident, then I think it proves once again that we have a global phenomenon now and a global sickness that we have to tackle both at source – in the areas where the cancer is being incubated in the middle east – and also of course around the world.

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If, as seems very likely, this is another terrorist incident, then I think it proves once again that we have a global phenomenon now and a global sickness that we have to tackle both at source – in the areas where the cancer is being incubated in the middle east – and also of course around the world.

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If, as seems very likely, this is another terrorist incident, then I think it proves once again that we have a global phenomenon now and a global sickness that we have to tackle both at source – in the areas where the cancer is being incubated in the middle east – and also of course around the world.

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When asked if this was a terror attack, a police spokesman said: “If a man with a long gun in a shopping centre opens fire and eight people are dead, we have to work on the assumption that this was not a normal crime and was a terrorist act.”

He confirmed that the police were looking for three perpetrators and said officers were getting support from elite units but have not found any weapons.

Police have no evidence that the danger zone is any further than the area around the Olympia shopping centre. But, until the situation is clear, they are urging people to stay at home.

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