BERLIN, June 23 (Reuters) - A gunman took hostages at a cinema in western Germany on Thursday before police shot him dead, a police spokesman told the N-TV television channel, adding that no other people were injured.
German television showed pictures of heavily armed police, wearing helmets and body armour, storming the Kinopolis complex in Viernheim and a couple fleeing the building.
German media said earlier that the masked man had opened fire at the cinema complex in the small town near Frankfurt.
Police shot the man dead after elite forces stormed the complex, the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper reported, citing the interior minister of Hesse state. The man was described as "disturbed".
Bild daily said that according to police about 25 people had been exposed to tear gas. (Reporting by Madeline Chambers; Editing by Andrew Roche)
The title of the thread is misleading. There was no mass shooting. There was a hostage situation and the authorities shot the perp. No one else was shot.
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The title of the thread is misleading. There was no mass shooting. There was a hostage situation and the authorities shot the perp. No one else was shot.
When the news first broke, the media was portraying it as a mass shooting.
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The title of the thread is misleading. There was no mass shooting. There was a hostage situation and the authorities shot the perp. No one else was shot.
Shocking, really, that the media reports so badly and to incite the world.
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