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| The gunman who killed nine people in Munich was a student obsessed with mass shootings and had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. | |
| Police who searched his room found newspaper clippings on attacks including an article entitled "Why do students kill?", police told reporters. | Police who searched his room found newspaper clippings on attacks including an article entitled "Why do students kill?", police told reporters. |
| The killer, who was born in Munich, had a 9mm Glock pistol and 300 bullets. | |
| Police are investigating whether he may have lured his victims through a Facebook invitation to a restaurant. | |
| He is suspected of using a fake account under a girl's name to invite people to the McDonald's restaurant where he launched his attack. | |
| Police also said there was an "obvious link between the gunman and Norway's mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who murdered 77 people in July 2011. | |
| Friday evening's attack at the Olympia shopping mall also left 27 people injured, including children. | Friday evening's attack at the Olympia shopping mall also left 27 people injured, including children. |
| Three of the victims were from Kosovo. The father of one of them, 21-year-old Dijamant Zabergja, was photographed holding a photo of his son near the mall on Saturday. The other two were young women. | |
| Police say the gunman had been in psychiatric care, receiving treatment for depression. | |
| Munich, capital of the southern German state of Bavaria, was rocked by the attack. | |
| Flags are to be flown at half-mast across Germany in mourning and Chancellor Angela Merkel has delayed a holiday in the Alps to chair a meeting of the national security council . | |
| People could be seen laying flowers and lighting candles outside the mall on Saturday. | |
| Critically ill | |
| Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae warned the number of injured could increase if people who had fled the scene came forward. | |
| Ten of the injured people were critically ill, including a 13-year-old boy, he said. | |
| First reports of the shooting came in just before 18:00 (16:00 GMT) on Friday. | |
| Witnesses say the attacker opened fire on members of the public in Hanauer Street before moving on to the mall. | |
| A grainy video appears to show a man firing a gun outside McDonald's as people flee. | |
| Another video shows the gunman walking around alone on a flat roof before again opening fire. He can be heard shouting at the person filming, saying at one point, "I'm German". | |
| Witness Luan Zequiri, who was in the shopping centre, told German broadcaster N-TV the attacker had been wearing military-style boots and a backpack. | |
| "I looked in his direction and he shot two people on the stairs," he said. | |
| Mr Zequiri said he hid in a shop, but when he left, he saw dead and wounded people on the ground. | |
| The name of the gunman, who was 18 and of ethnic Iranian origin, was not given. | |
| His body was found about 1km (half a mile) from the mall. | |
| The attack came just four days after a teenage Afghan asylum seeker stabbed and injured five people on a train in Bavaria before being shot dead by police. | |
| Claiming the attack, IS later released a video showing the 17-year-old brandishing a knife and making threats. | |
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