(Vatican Radio) A masked man who opened fire at a cinema complex in southwestern Germany has died.
Listen to the report by Stefan Bos:
The Minister of Interior of Germany's western Hesse state, Peter Beuth, said police
shot and killed the man after he attacked the Kinopolis complex in the town of Viernheim,
near Frankfurt.
Heavily armed police surrounded the building. They had been told that the man fired several shots. Soon security forces were seen entering the compex.
Initially reports emerged that Dozens of people were injured in the turmoil,
most of them apparently because of tear gas. But authorities later denied that
people had been hurt.
The gunman's motive was not immediately clear. But security officials spoke of a confused man and declined to call the incident an act of terrorism.
Yet the incident, which lasted some three hours, came amid heightened concerns about possible terrorism across Europe.
Militants of the Islamic State group have threatened to carry out attacks.
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