Saturday, July 23, 2016

Munich shooter was German-Iranian teen, motive 'unclear'. His body was found about one kilometre (0.6 mile) from the mall.

Munich police said Saturday that the shooter in a deadly shopping mall rampage was an 18-year-old German-Iranian man whose motive was "completely unclear".
"The perpetrator was an 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich," police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters after the massacre Friday that left 10 people dead including the gunman.

"The motive or explanation for this crime is completely unclear."

Andrae said the shooter -- who opened fire at a busy shopping centre near the southern German city's Olympic stadium before turning the gun on himself -- had dual citizenship and "no criminal record".

His body was found about one kilometre (0.6 mile) from the mall.

Twenty-one people were injured in the rampage, 16 of whom were still being treated in hospital. Three were seriously hurt, Andrae said.

The statement from authorities came after explosives experts from the Munich police examined a backpack found on a dead man thought to be the lone assailant in the rampage, German DPA news agency reported.

The man's body was found about one kilometre (0.6 miles) away from the mall where the shootings took place, DPA said.

"We suspect terrorism," a police spokesman in the Bavarian capital said earlier, but there were no immediate indications of an Islamist link.

A video posted on social media appeared to show a man dressed in black walking away from a McDonald's restaurant while firing repeatedly on people as they fled screaming.

Germany has so far escaped the kind of large-scale jihadist attacks seen in neighbouring France and neither the motives nor the identity of the supposed gunman were known.

Munich's main train station was evacuated and metro and bus transport in the city suspended for several hours while residents were ordered to stay in their homes, leaving the streets largely deserted.

By early Saturday, transport services were running again, Munich police said.

Chancellor Angela Merkel will convene her security council on Saturday to address the deadly rampage in the European economic powerhouse which took in more than one million migrants and refugees last year.

"We are determined to do everything we can so that terror and inhuman violence stand no chance in Germany," her chief of staff Peter Altmaier said...
  [i24news.tv]
23/7/16
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