Munich: Several people were injured including a female police official as a gunman opens fire at a subway station in Munich on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, officials arrested the gunman. Another report quoted witnesses saying that the suspect took a female police officer’s firearm and then shot her before firing at others at the scene.
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German cops have confirmed that ‘several people’ were wounded during the terrifying shooting.
“A handgun was used during a police operation at S-Bahn station Unterfoehring. At least one person injured,” police tweeted, referring to a northeastern suburb of the Bavarian city.
Police spokesman Michael Riehlein said that the incident occurred Tuesday morning when police were carrying out a check at the Unterfoehring subway station.
He says during the inspection a weapon was fired but could not immediately say whether it was fired by police or by a suspect.
Riehlein says there is no danger to the wider public.
Bavarian Radio reported: “According to police information it is probably not a terrorist attack”