Published on Jul 22, 2016
Police have closed off a wide area around a large Munich shopping centre after shots were fired, a spokeswoman for the police has said.
German media are reporting that there have been multiple deaths in the incident.
However, the police spokeswoman said no details were immediately available on injuries or who was responsible for the shooting.
An official at the Munich Olympia Shopping Centre declined comment, saying only, "We are experiencing a problem."CNN)[Breaking news update, published at 12:44 p.m. ET]
The shooting at a Munich shopping mall is over, police spokeswoman Claudia Kvenzel said. Police are asking people to avoid the area. Kvenzel had no further information.
[Original story, published at 12:39 p.m. ET]
An ongoing "shooting spree" was happening early Friday evening at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany, a police spokesperson told CNN.
The spokesperson did not give any further information.Police in Munich reportedly said they expect "multiple dead" after a shooting spree inside a city shopping center, prompting a massive police response and an intense manhunt for possible suspects.
There were no official reports of injuries but Germany's dpa news agency reported that police are saying "we expect multiple dead."
Munich police said there appears to be at least one suspect, but authorities would not confirm if any suspects are in custody or on the loose.
"Many shots were fired, I can't say how many but it's been alot," an employee at the mall told NTV, according to Reuters. "All the people from outside came streaming into the storeand I only saw one person on the ground who was so severelyinjured that he definitely didn't survive."
The Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the northern part of Munich is not far from the city's Olympic Stadium in the Moosach district of the Bavarian capital.
City police alerted the public that there is a large police operation, and asked that people avoid the area around the shopping center.
Law enforcement officers are responding in large numbers. German media say multiple people are injured.
It's the second attack in Germany in less than a week. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan wounded four people in an ax-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 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.
The Munich Transportation Authorities said it halted service on multiple train, tram and bus lines after the shooting, Reuters reported.
German media are reporting that there have been multiple deaths in the incident.
However, the police spokeswoman said no details were immediately available on injuries or who was responsible for the shooting.
An official at the Munich Olympia Shopping Centre declined comment, saying only, "We are experiencing a problem."CNN)[Breaking news update, published at 12:44 p.m. ET]
The shooting at a Munich shopping mall is over, police spokeswoman Claudia Kvenzel said. Police are asking people to avoid the area. Kvenzel had no further information.
[Original story, published at 12:39 p.m. ET]
An ongoing "shooting spree" was happening early Friday evening at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany, a police spokesperson told CNN.
The spokesperson did not give any further information.Police in Munich reportedly said they expect "multiple dead" after a shooting spree inside a city shopping center, prompting a massive police response and an intense manhunt for possible suspects.
There were no official reports of injuries but Germany's dpa news agency reported that police are saying "we expect multiple dead."
Munich police said there appears to be at least one suspect, but authorities would not confirm if any suspects are in custody or on the loose.
"Many shots were fired, I can't say how many but it's been alot," an employee at the mall told NTV, according to Reuters. "All the people from outside came streaming into the storeand I only saw one person on the ground who was so severelyinjured that he definitely didn't survive."
The Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the northern part of Munich is not far from the city's Olympic Stadium in the Moosach district of the Bavarian capital.
City police alerted the public that there is a large police operation, and asked that people avoid the area around the shopping center.
Law enforcement officers are responding in large numbers. German media say multiple people are injured.
It's the second attack in Germany in less than a week. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan wounded four people in an ax-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 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.
The Munich Transportation Authorities said it halted service on multiple train, tram and bus lines after the shooting, Reuters reported.
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