Police shoot dead gunman who took hostages in German cinema complex

BERLIN: A gunman took hostages at a cinema in western Germany on Thursday before police shot him dead, a police spokesman said, adding that no other people were

BERLIN: A gunman took hostages at a cinema in western Germany on Thursday before police shot him dead, a police spokesman said, adding that no other people were injured. The man, who appeared to have been a “disturbed person,” had a rifle or “long gun” and special forces intervened and shot him, interior minister Peter Beuth said. There was no evidence anyone besides the gunman was injured or killed, he added. German television showed pictures of heavily armed police storming the Kinopolis complex in Viernheim. It does not look like the attacker had any link to terrorism, news agency DPA quoted security sources as saying.

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