Shots fired in Munich shopping centre

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-36870986

Shooter/shooters still not arrested. People warned to avoid public spaces.

Bloody hell. Not again.

German Media talking of multiple shooters.

I'm afraid this is the new reality in Europe. ISIS would like nothing better than to make Germans regret their refugee welcome and turn against muslims.

Some really scary footage on Twitter of a gunman outside McDonald's and of inside the actual mall. Seems like it's more than one shooter if the videos are genuine (which they seem to be).

Horrendous.
Beyond words really, apparently more than one gunman headed for the underground. Just hope that's wrong.

It's terrifying. Before it seemed that terrorist attacks were so remote and targeted but now it's shopping centres, beach fireworks, bars, restaurants and indiscriminate public places.

McDonald's footage now on TV on BBC news.

This hell is just constant.

Theweebaby I saw that, why would someone be filming a macdonalds like that?

I don't know what to say anymore.

I can only assume he saw a man with a gun and knew something was about to happen so decided to film it. Wouldn't be my first reaction to a gunman, I'd be running as fast as my legs could carry me.

It's all just so bleak at the minute, every time I turn on the news, it's another gunman on the loose, another city bombed to nothing, just constant never ending atrocities that we humans inflict on each other. We're supposed to be the most evolved species on the planet and yet we are seemingly incapable of living in peace.

This is too much.

I really don't understand why someone would be filming MacDonalds just as the gunman arrived, and then carry on filming after he started firing.

I used to live in southern Germany and these attacks have made me feel particularly despairing.

How the fuck can we stop this? It's heartbreaking the loss of innocent lives, all over the world.

Because they saw him hanging around outside dressed all in black looking suspicious!

I'm in Munich (city centre) and there's a constant stream of police vehicles and ambulances going past our house and a helicopter circling above. Scary. So glad DP came home from work early.

Bloody hell. Just about to book flights for ds and I to go to Berlin next month.

Just read on the guardian website that footage of the inside of the mall was from South Africa in 2015, not today's incident in Munich.

Utterly terrifying

At least it seems reports of a second shooting were not true.

8 fatalities now confirmed

Alcohol that's a very good question

There has been 132 terrorist attacks in the works so far in July 2016. Why the big fuss about Germany? Do those from non European countries not matter?

I wonder how many terrorist attacks happened in July 2006? Or 1996?

Is the world actually less safe now or do we only perceive it to be?

FruitCider, I don't think the events in Munich matter more or less than events in other parts of the world, however it is rather close to home. Literally, for me.
What is your definition of 'terrorist attack' btw?
I am not aware that the shooting in Munich has been attributed to terrorists at this point.

I suppose I feel for them because I have been there and DH has been there three times this year that I feel it. Its closer to me.
I felt the same when the cafe was attacked in Marrakesh, having sat there and had a taste for the country it affected me.
When I read about North Korea though, I also feel deeply upset, Its a case of very much out of sight out of mind, the whole country is a giant prison camp, with possible the worse humanitarian conditions and levels of deprivations on the entire planet. We do not hear of what goes on there because media black out. But Fruit, I am sure you feel as deeply for them as I do?