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| Munich shopping centre evacuated after shooting | |
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| German police have evacuated a shopping centre in Munich after an armed man went on a shooting spree in the building, police have said. | |
| Several people were injured and there were unconfirmed reports of deaths, local media said. | |
| An emergency call was received at 6pm local time after the man opened fire in a pharmacy at the Olympia shopping centre in the Moosach district of the Bavarian city. | |
| “We believe this is a big incident,” a police spokeswoman told German media. | |
| Police and ambulance crews were on site within minutes of the call. The man is believed to have fled the shopping centre and headed for a nearby U-Bahn (underground) station. | |
| There was no indication as to the motive for the attack. | |
| Germany has been on high alert after a man wielding an axe and knife attacked train passengers near the southern city of Würzburg earlier this week. | |
| The Olympia shopping centre is a two-tiered glass-covered mall that was built on the site of the 1972 Olympics. The Munich Games were overshadowed by a terrorist attack in which 11 Israeli sportsmen and a German policeman were killed after being taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists. | |
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