A man found dead
near a shopping center in Munich, Germany killed himself and was likely
the lone gunman in an attack that killed nine people and injured at
least 10 others, a spokesman for the Munich police said on Saturday.
Earlier
police, citing eyewitness accounts, had said they were looking for up
to three suspects in the shooting attack at the Munich Olympia Shopping
Centre (OEZ) that sent shoppers running for their lives and shut traffic
across the city.
But early
Saturday, a Munich police spokesman said it was now believed likely that
only one man was responsible for the shooting, the third attack against
civilians in Western Europe in eight days.
“We
can give a cautious ‘all-clear signal.’ It looks like the body found
near the OEZ was the gunman,” a police spokesman told reporters.
It was the third major act of violence against
civilians in Western Europe in eight days. Previous attacks in France
and Germany were claimed by the Islamic State militant group.
