Multiple Casualties Reported After “Shooting Rampage” Attack In Munich, Shooters On The Loose – Live Feed

 

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Multiple Casualties Reported After “Shooting Rampage” Attack In Munich, Shooters On The Loose – Live Feed

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What is known so far:

  • Shots have been fired at the Olympia shopping mall in Munich, Germany.  Multiple casualties and injuries have been reported, with Bavarian broadcasters reporting 6 dead and many injured.
  • According to a statement by the Munich police on its facebook page, witnesses report three different people
    with firearms. The number of victims is currently unconfirmed.
  • No perpetrators have been arrested and the search for them continues.  Officers ask everyone in the urban area of Munich to stay indoors.
  • Reuters add that the local police believes it is dealing with a “shooting rampage” following unconfirmed reports of a second shooter
  • Public transportation services have been halted on multiple train, tram and bus lines after the shooting. The main train station in Munich is currently being evacuated.
  • The Munich police has cited an “acute terror threat.”
  • German Magazine Focus says that according to police sources, the one of the perpetrators has shot himself in the head.

 

Update 26:Below is a translation of the incident captured in the video between the alleged shooter and a man on a balcony:

Man: “You fucking Asshole you…”
Shooter: “Because of you I [unintelligible]…”
Balcony Man: “You cunt you. you’re a cunt”
Shooter: “…and now I have to buy a gun to shoot you”
Balcony Man: “a gun fuck off your head isn’t on right”
Shooter and Balcony man shouting at each other
Balcony Man apparently to people filming: “He’s got a gun here the guy has one”
Unseen voice: “Shit/Fucking Turks!”
Balcony Man: “Shit/Fucking Kanacken” (foreigners basically)
Balcony man to someone else : “EY! HE’S GOT A GUN! He has loaded his gun! Get the cops here!”
Shooter: “I am German.”
Balcony Man: “You’re a cunt is what you are”
Shooter: “Stop filming!”
Balcony Man: “A cunt is what you are, what the fuck are you doing?”
Shooter: “Yeah what, I was born here!”
Balcony Man: “Yeah and what the fuck you think you’re doing???”
Shooter: “I grew up here in the Hartz 4 (unemployment benefits in Germany) area.
Balcony Man and Shooter talk at same time, can’t make it out.
Shooter says something about “Behandlung” which is “treatment” in both medical treatment or just how you treat people,not sure which one he means.
Balcony Man says something like “Yeah treatment is something for you”
Shooter: “I haven’t done anything here for [unintelligible]”
Shooter: “Just shut your fucking face man”
Balcony Man: “You cunt you”
Balcony Man: “HEY! HE’S ON THE UPPER FLOOR HERE [unintelligible]”
Filming man goes into cover, shooter starts firing.
Balcony man calls him a cunt again.
Balcony man shouts something at him about “shooting here” and Shooter replies multiple times “Yeah, that’s where you’re right! Yeah you’re right with that!” Yeah you’re right!”

Video ends.

 

http://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/756579133421981696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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Update 25: RT’s video agency Ruptly has posted a video of survivors filing out of the Olympia shopping center. The footage also shows one of the victims lying dead in the street, in the vicinity of the McDonald’s where one of the gunmen opened fire

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Update 24: an alleged photo of the shooter

http://twitter.com/giacomoscardua/status/756571942610673664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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Update 23: a couple of conflicting reports. According to one, the gunman was Muslim.

  • ACCORDING TO CNN, THE MUNICH GUNMAN SHOUTED ALLAHU AKBAR AND TARGETED CHILDREN

On the other hand, The International Spectator reports that the gundman was targeting Muslims:

  • BREAKING: Reports Munich gunman shouted ‘you f***ing Turks!’

Perhaps at this point it is best to wait before trying to determine the motivation of the shooters.

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Update 22: The German government is preparing for a crisis situation

  • GERMAN NEWS AGENCY DPA SAYS GOVERNMENT PREPARING FOR CRISIS SITUATION DUE TO SHOOTING IN MUNICH

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Update 21: Munich police have confirmed on Facebook that six people have been killed.  A Munich police spokesman has just announced that police are looking for up to three perpetrators.  Many people are severely injured.

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Update 20: President Barack Obama, who had been updated on the situation, has said that his “heart goes out” to the victims of the attack, and reaffirmed that Germany remains of Washington’s “closest allies.”

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Update 19: A local resident, Dominic Faust, was in another shopping centre in central Munich when there were reports of a separate shooting.  Speaking to BBC World TV, he described the fear and panic:

Well, about two hours ago people came screaming inside the mall. Those people told us that there was a shooting outside and so the security closed the door of this mall and asked everybody to go upstairs to the fifth floor. This is where I am right now with about 150 other folks and we are asked not to leave the building.

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Update 18: ACCORDING TO REUTERS CITING GERMAN MAGAZINE FOCUS, POLICE SOURCES ARE SAYING THAT PERPETRATOR SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD

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Update 17: According to an i24News update, the alleged shooter shouted obscenties about foreigners and said that “I am German”

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Update 16: A local journalist, Jeanette Winter, journalist at Bavaria Public Radio, is shocked that terrorism has come to Munich

When the attack on the train happened everybody was shocked, of course, but we thought, well, that was just one person. To be honest I thought terror would not come to Munich. Now terror has struck our beautiful city… Oktoberfest will be held soon and that is, of course, a target for terrorists – we are all feeling very, very bad right now.

Jeanette Winter
Journalist at Bavaria Public Radio, speaking to BBC World News

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Update 15: CNN has broadcast an interview with an eyewitness, who said that the assailants were “masked, and dressed all in black.”

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Update 14: A local barman at a pub in Munich has described the sense of growing panic as news broke of shots fired at a local shopping centre. Sam Pound, who works at the nearby Kilians Irish bar said: “We’re getting information from BBC News and local Twitter feeds from German authorities, but it’s hard to know what’s realistic and what’s not.

“We’ve heard about another attack about 400 metres from us which is very worrying.

“We’re in a cellar bar so we feel quite safe, but when you go to the street you can hear a lot of sirens and helicopters.”

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Update 13: BBC has released the following photos of armed officers are surrounding the Karlsplatz area of Munich. Here are some pictures from the scene.

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Update 12: Another message from the Munich police:

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Update 11: Lena Deutch, a police reporter for Bavarian Radio cited by BBC, says police are trying to clear everyone off the streets in parts of central Munich, as they search for the person or people who carried out the shooting.

All of the police forces are at the shopping centre and at the official places in Munich as well and they’re calling out that nobody’s allowed to go to the official places. They are trying to close everything down because we do not know where this person who’s been doing the shooting is at the moment.
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Update 10: According to the Munich police, witnesses report three different people with firearms, the Munich police say in a statement on their Facebook page. The number of victims is currently not known.

No perpetrators have been arrested and the search for them continues.

Officers ask everyone in the urban area of Munich to stay indoors.

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Update 9: Taxi drivers have been told not to pick up passengers from the area near the Stachus, also known as Karlsplatz, according to this tweet.

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Update 8: BBC adds that staff in the shopping centre are still hiding inside, an employee told Reuters news agency by telephone.

“Many shots were fired, I can’t say how many but it’s been a lot,” the employee, who declined to be identified, said from the shopping centre.

“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.”

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Update 7: another video from the incident:

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Update 6: According to Reuters, local police believe there is now a “shooting rampage” in Munich

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Update 5: an unconfirmed  video of what may be a second shooting

http://twitter.com/johndeconner/status/756538569963995136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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Update 4: MUNICH TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES SAY HAVE HALTED SERVICE ON MULTIPLE TRAIN, TRAM AND BUS LINES AFTER SHOOTING

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Update 3: GERMAN SPECIAL FORCE POLICE HAVE ARRIVED AT MUNICH SHOOTING LOCATION – NTV TELEVISION

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Update 2: MUENCHER ABENDZEITUNG NEWSPAPER REPORTS POSSIBLE 15 DEATHS IN MUNICH SHOOTING, GERMAN TELEVISION NTV SAYS POSSIBLY 10 DEAD

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Update 1: Munich police have confirmed casualties and there are reports of a possible second shooting. The Munich subway has also been halted after N24 reported that the police is hunting for a single gunman who may have tried to escape using the subway.

 

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As we detailed earlier, for the second time in a week, Germany is facing another ‘incident’ as The BBC reports “shots fired” in a Munich, Germany shopping center. According to the local police there is now a “major operation” at the Olympia shopping center. As BBC adds, reports say the area round the shopping centre in the district of Moosach has been sealed off, but details of the incident are sketchy. 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.

The alleged shooting takes place shortly after Reuters reported that more than three-quarters of Germans believe their country will soon be the target of terrorism, a survey showed on Friday, after a 17-year-old asylum-seeker wounded passengers on a train in an ax attack claimed by Islamic State.

Seventy-seven percent expect an attack to happen soon, up from 69 percent two weeks ago, according to the survey compiled by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen for broadcaster ZDF.

Bavarian police shot dead the teenager after he wounded four people from Hong Kong on the train and injured a local resident while fleeing.

And now, according to unconfirmed reports, it just happened as up to 15 people are feared dead after 30 shots were fired.

 

 

A major police operation is underway according to german media…