At least nine people were killed when gunfire erupted at a shopping center[1] in Munich, Germany, in what police officials said "looks like a terror attack."
Munich police said they were trying to verify whether one of the bodies could be one of the shooters.
Police said no one was in custody, and the city was under a virtual lockdown, with residents being urged to stay home, restaurants and other business closing and public transit shutting down.
The shooting broke out at a McDonald's across from the Olympia shopping mall
atabout 5:50 p.m. local time, police spokeswoman Claudia Kntzel said. Shots also were firedinside the mall, witnesses said.
On Facebook, police said gunfire was reported in several locations and that witnesses said they sawthree people with firearms.
A witness identified as Lauretta told CNN her son was in a bathroom with a shooter at the McDonald's. "That's where he loaded his weapon," she said. "I hear like an alarm and boom, boom, boom... And he's still killing the children. The children were sitting to eat. They can't run."
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