Nine people are dead after a lone gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in Munich, Germany Friday morning.
Munich police say they are not looking for any other shooters. The shooter's body was found near the mall. Police say it appears he killed himself.
Munich police spokesman Thomas Baumann told German news agency dpa the attack started at a fast food restaurant in the mall shortly before 6 p.m. local time.
Witnesses initially reported seeing three shooters near the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall.
Public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk reported that shops in the center of Munich had closed with customers inside.
Munich police shut down all modes of public transit while they determined if any shooters were still at large.
Police responded in large numbers to the mall in the northern part of Munich, not far from the city's Olympic Stadium in the Moosach district of the Bavarian capital.
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.
Lynn Stein, who said she works at Jack Wolfskin store in the mall, told CNN that the shooter was inside the mall.
"I heard several shots," Stein said. "(I) was just going to buy something while my coworker was still in the shop. People started running. I went outside as well; more people running outside. I think I heard more shots. Then it sounded like he went to the parking house next to the mall -- several shots there."
We're working on learning more about the shooting for Channel 2 Action News
