9 Dead in Shooting Rampage in Munich, Police Say

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    At least one gunman opened fire near a shopping mall in Munich just before 6 p.m. on Friday, killing eight people and wounding scores of others in an assault that the German police said they were treating as a suspected terrorist attack.


    The manhunt shut down traffic and public transportation across Munich, Germany’s third-most-populous city and the capital of the state of Bavaria. Police said they had found the body of a ninth person near the mall and were investigating the possibility that he was an attacker.


    A state of emergency was declared in the city, plunging much of the metropolis into a desolate and fearful state of lockdown. As the transit system was shut down, commuters held their hands up in the air as they walked past police officers.

    Read more http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/world/europe/munich-mall.html?_r=0
     

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