Munich police kill armed man in ‘return fire’ near Israeli consulate
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The deadly incident comes on the anniversary of the 1972 attack at the Olympic Games in the German city.
A suspected gunman has been shot dead by German police near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich, according to Bavaria state’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann.
The deadly incident took place in the Karolinenplatz area of Germany’s third-biggest city and the capital of Bavaria at about 9am (07:00 GMT) on Thursday and involved a lone man who acted “with a long-barrelled gun”, a Munich police spokesperson said.
It comes on the anniversary of the 1972 attack at the Olympic Games in Munich, in which Palestinian Black September gunmen murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
Herrmann said the man, whose identity has not yet been established, “shot at the police officers” and died after they “returned fire”.
Police said none of the five officers involved in the shooting suffered injuries, and there were no indications of further suspects.
