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Germany again - Munich

MI5 — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:28:40 GMT

More breaking (bad) news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36870874

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Cleoriff — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:33:41 GMT

Yes just seen this Rich....Shots fired and a major police operation underway.....FGS

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jonsie — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:39:37 GMT

15 'casualties' reported....

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Bambino — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:06:27 GMT

Incident is being reported as over, but conflicting reports on numbers of people killed.

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Cleoriff — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:42:07 GMT

The transport system has been put on lockdown I think

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Bambino — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:03:30 GMT

Obviously the information I posted earlier from a report from the BBC was incorrect. This has become yet another dreadful atrocity.

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Cleoriff — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:14:37 GMT

it changes by the minute. Now being called an acute terror situation

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36870874

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Cleoriff — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:24:06 GMT

By the way, with the increasing amount of terror attacks, it would be great if O2 could look at this idea with some haste @Toby

http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Community-Ideas/The-scrapping-of-all-charges-from-quot-areas-in-crisis-quot/idi-p/984675

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ComaChameleon — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:58:09 GMT

They're talking about at least 6 dead people.

And they're unsureif it's terror or "just" a shooting.

We got a presentation about bullet wounds (sadly we got a call, so we had to leave). I guess it's just a matter of time until we'll have such a case in our city too. 😞

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Cleoriff — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 20:11:31 GMT

@ComaChameleon wrote:

They're talking about at least 6 dead people.

And they're unsureif it's terror or "just" a shooting.

We got a presentation about bullet wounds (sadly we got a call, so we had to leave). I guess it's just a matter of time until we'll have such a case in our city too. 😞

Hi @ComaChameleon this quoted by the police on Sky News

Police are now describing it as "an acute terror situation".

http://news.sky.com/story/live-shots-fired-at-german-shopping-centre-10509759

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ComaChameleon — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:31:34 GMT

@Cleoriff

Yes. They said they handle it as terror situation to be clear for the "worst case", even it's "just a shooting".

So the classification is more like the strategic thing yet.

"I'm tired, boss. [...] Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time."

(John Coffey - The Green Mile)

That's what quoted in German on several sites on FB... It fits.

At least 9 dead now.

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Cleoriff — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:34:12 GMT

I am so sickened about it all @ComaChameleon It's every damn day now. Nowhere is safe. Oh and for all those who say 'we can't let them win'. Newsflash...they are!

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MI5 — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:38:50 GMT

@ComaChameleon wrote:

"I'm tired, boss. [...] Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time."

(John Coffey - The Green Mile)

Very poignant

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ComaChameleon — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:11:02 GMT

I just can't understand why people do such things. We people from Rhineland/Cologne are said to be most tolerant. One of our slogans is "Leeve un leeve losse" (Living and let live). It was always naturally for me. I just can't understand...

The 9th body is thought to be one of the terrorists. He has a bag with him and it'll be controled by robots. They fear it could be a bomb.

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jonsie — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 02:21:11 GMT

This morning they are reporting 9 dead including minors, the German-Iranian national gunman shot himself dead and there are 21 injured (16 hospitalised). He appeared to be acting alone but they are still investigating the possibility of others being involved.

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Cleoriff — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 06:35:35 GMT

Latest posted an hour ago is that he was acting alone. He was 18 and shot himself after killing and injuring others

He lived in Munich and his motives for the atrocity are unknown.....

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36873180

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jonsie — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:05:54 GMT

Where the hell do they get weapons in Germany? Been living there years so he had to plan this to arm himself prior to the event.

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Cleoriff — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:18:43 GMT

@jonsie wrote:

Where the hell do they get weapons in Germany? Been living there years so he had to plan this to arm himself prior to the event.

Is this close to where your son lives @jonsie?

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jonsie — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:23:03 GMT

Thankfully not, he lives in Wedding which is a suburb of Berlin.

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Cleoriff — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:02:50 GMT

@jonsie wrote:

Thankfully not, he lives in Wedding which is a suburb of Berlin.

Still worrying I expect....