{"id":233536,"date":"2016-07-22T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233536"},"modified":"2016-07-22T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T19:10:15","slug":"munich-shooting-police-hunt-attackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/munich-shooting-police-hunt-attackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Munich shooting: Police hunt ‘attackers’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police in the German city of Munich say the perpetrators of a shooting attack are still on the run, and they advise people to avoid public places.<\/p>\n
There are reports of at least six people killed, but police have not confirmed that figure.<\/p>\n
A big security operation is under way at the Olympia shopping centre in the north-western Moosach district.<\/p>\n
Shop workers have been unable to leave the building. There is no information about a possible motive for the attack.<\/p>\n
The police Facebook page quoted eyewitnesses as saying they had seen three attackers carrying guns.<\/p>\n
Police are now describing it as “an acute terror situation”.<\/p>\n
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Public transport has been suspended as the extensive security operation continues. The city’s central railway station has been evacuated.<\/p>\n
People stranded by the emergency and unable to get home are being offered shelter by locals. The initiative was launched with the Twitter hashtag #Offenet\u00fcr(open door).<\/p>\n
Police helicopters are flying over the city and special forces are involved in the massive police deployment.<\/p>\n
The security forces have been on alert after a teenage migrant stabbed and injured five people on a train in Bavaria on Monday in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n
The authorities had warned of the danger of further incidents.<\/p>\n