Follow the live updates of the shooting in Munich here:Police have closed off a wide area around a large Munich shopping center after shots were fired, a spokeswoman for the police said on Friday. No details were immediately available on injuries or who was responsible for the shooting, the spokeswoman said. An official at the Munich Olympia Shopping Centre declined comment, saying only, "We are experiencing a problem." The shopping center is next to the Munich Olympic stadium, where the Palestinian militant group Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and eventually killed them during the 1972 Olympic Games. Bavarian police shot dead the teenager after he wounded four people from Hong Kong on the train and injured a local resident while fleeing.

Source: dna July 22, 2016 17:04 UTC