The teenaged gunman who killed nine persons in a shooting rampage in a Munich shopping centre before turning the gun on himself was obsessed with mass shootings, police officials said on Saturday. The gunman was identified as 18-year-old Ali David Sonboly, an Iranian, who has been living in Munich for more than two years. The German-Iranian teenager, who was obsessed with mass shootings, had an "obvious link" to Norwegian right-wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik, German police said, the BBC reported. Briefcase 1 The German-Iranian teenager was obsessed with mass shootings. Also read:Munich shooting: 9 dead, gunman identified as 18-year-old German-IranianMunich shooting is a terrorist attack: Francois Hollande

Source: India Today July 23, 2016 14:03 UTC