Police: 10 dead in shootingspublished at 00:18Breaking
Police in Munich are now saying 10 people are dead after the shootings, the Reuters news agency is reporting.
Summary
Police in Germany have given a 'cautious all-clear' following a mass shooting at a Munich shopping centre
At least nine victims have died. More than 20 were injured, including three critically
The suspect was an 18-year-old German-Iranian dual national who lived in Munich
He is believed to have been acting on his own and killed himself. His motive is "completely unclear", say police
Young people and "adolescents" are among the dead, and children are among those injured
Live Reporting
John Harrison, Stephen Robb, Marysia Nowak, Nalina Eggert and Emma Atkinson
Police: 10 dead in shootingspublished at 00:18
Munich Police say at least 10 people injuredpublished at 23:52
23:52Munich police are tweeting in German, English, French, and Turkish.
All public transport in Munich remains suspendedpublished at 23:21
23:21Munich Police tweets: "Note about the traffic situation: Of course the night trams and buses are not operating at the moment either!"
A family protecting a father from bad newspublished at 23:16
23:16Rukmini Callimachi, a New York Times correspondent, recounts a sad story from Munich through a series of tweets.
A father is looking for his son, who was in the Olympia shopping centre.
The family knows the news is bad, but the father has a heart condition and is too unwell to be told - so they keep searching.
Vice-chancellor thinking of victimspublished at 23:04
23:04Germany's Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, tweets that his thoughts are with the victims of the "shocking" Munich attack.
He praises the Munich police, saying they are dealing with events admirably.
Police 'to investigate body with robot'published at 23:03
23:03German media are reporting that police want to investigate one of the bodies with a robot.
Bavarian broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk says a male body was found about one kilometre from the scene of the attack. Police are determining whether this could be an attacker.
Police appeal for imagespublished at 22:54 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:54 BST 22 July 2016Police in Munich have asked for witnesses to upload videos or pictures to help them with their investigation.
The link is https://medienupload-portal01.polizei.bayern.de/.
They previously asked people not to share images of the live police operation online, saying that would only help the attackers.
Victim or assailant?published at 22:51 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:51 BST 22 July 2016The Munich police spokesman, Marcus da Gloria Martins, tells national news programme Tagesschau that the ninth person whose body has been found by police died in a violent manner.
Mr da Gloria Martins said it was too early to tell whether he was a victim or an assailant.
Witness: Attacker yelled anti-foreigner slurpublished at 22:50 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:50 BST 22 July 2016Witness Luan Zequiri said he was at the scene when the shooting broke out. He tells the Germany broadcaster n-tv that he heard the attacker yell an anti-foreigner slur.
He says he saw only one attacker, who was wearing boots and a backpack.
He says he looked in the direction of the attacker, who shot two people on the stairs. He hid in a shop, then ran outside when the coast was clear and saw bodies of the dead and wounded on the ground.
German security council to meetpublished at 22:43 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:43 BST 22 July 2016A security council of the German parliament will meet tomorrow to discuss the attack in Munich.
Chancellor Angela Merkel will be joined by the German defence minister, vice-chancellor, foreign minister, justice minister, finance minister, development minister and interior minister.
Federal Minister for Special Affairs, Peter Altmaier, who will also be at the meeting, said: "We are determined to do all we can so that terrorism and misanthropic violence have no chance in Germany."
Munich mosques open overnightpublished at 22:25 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:25 BST 22 July 2016A Muslim newspaper in Germany, Islamische Zeitung, tweets that mosques in Munich will stay open overnight for anyone who needs refuge.
Public transport in the city has been halted, leaving many people unable to get home, but the police have asked everyone to stay indoors for safety.
'Fear must never triumph over freedom'published at 22:15 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:15 BST 22 July 2016Germany's Minister of State for Europe, Michael Roth, says fear "must never triumph over freedom".
"I mourn the victims of Munich and have sympathy for their relatives," he says.
Flag at half mast at German Embassy in Washingtonpublished at 22:14 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:14 BST 22 July 2016'We stand with Germany' - Clintonpublished at 22:14 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:14 BST 22 July 2016Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the US presidential election in November, tweets that she is "monitoring the horrific situation in Munich".
"We stand with our friends in Germany", she says.
Today Mrs Clinton visited the site of another attack, the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando that left 49 people dead.
'We can't rule out a terrorist connection'published at 22:13 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:13 BST 22 July 2016Speaking to German television ARD, Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff said the possibility of a terrorist attack had to be considered:
Quote Message"We don't rule out any possibility. I was in close contact with the Bavarian interior minister all afternoon and evening. The Chancellor is being kept up to date at all times and everything we know and can say so far is that it was an inhuman, cruel attack. Our thoughts are with the victims of this attack. We can't rule out a terrorist connection, we can't confirm this but we investigate in this direction as well."
Peter Altmeier, Chief of the German Chancellery
Attacks 'undermine faith in government'published at 22:12 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:12 BST 22 July 2016Quote Message"It is a core duty, one of the very few core duties of government to deliver security to their citizens. And if a government is shown, by terrorist incident, whether the terrorist is an Islamist or a neo-Nazi, as in Norway a couple of years ago, it undermines people's faith in the liberal, democratic form of government."
Professor Anthony Glees, Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence, University of Buckingham
'Special forces in Munich'published at 22:09 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:09 BST 22 July 2016The Sueddeutsche Zeitung is reporting that the GSG9, an elite German counter-terrorism unit, is involved in the operation in Munich.
This has not been confirmed by the police.
'People ran in screaming'published at 22:00 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
22:00 BST 22 July 2016Munich resident Dominik Faust tells the BBC how he was trapped in a separate shopping centre from the one where the shootings took place, after people ran in screaming.
Media caption, Munich shooting: 'People ran in screaming'
German president 'horrified' by attackpublished at 21:53 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
21:53 BST 22 July 2016The President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, says he is "horrified" by the shooting in Munich.
In a statement, Mr Gauck said: "I am with all the victims in my thoughts and all those who are mourning or fearful for loved ones."
He also offered his "solidarity" to people in the emergency services who are working this evening, trying to "protect people and save lives".
Why police assumed a terror attackpublished at 21:53 British Summer Time 22 July 2016
21:53 BST 22 July 2016Police spokesman Marcus De Gloria Martins explains why the German authorities are treating this as a terrorist attack.
Quote Message"We assume it's a terror attack so that can ensure maximum resources and measures. If it turns out that there is a completely different background to this, then we certainly mobilised a lot of resources but we had a worst-case scenario covered."
Marcus De Gloria Martins, Police spokesman