German police on Saturday said a gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a busy mall in Munich likely acted alone, and then committed suicide after killing nine people in cold blood. "The perpetrator was an 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich," police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters after the rampage. The statement came after explosives experts from the Munich police examined a backpack found on a dead man thought to be the lone assailant in the rampage, the German DPA news agency reported. Nine people were killed in the shooting that began early yesterday evening, with 21 wounded according to the latest official toll. The man's body was found about one kilometre from the mall where the shootings took place, DPA said.

Source: dna July 23, 2016 03:33 UTC