{"id":26319,"date":"2016-06-24T02:27:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/german-police-shoot-dead-hostage-taker-in-cinema\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T02:27:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:27:24","slug":"german-police-shoot-dead-hostage-taker-in-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/german-police-shoot-dead-hostage-taker-in-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"German police shoot dead hostage taker in cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

{No hostages were hurt after armed man barricaded himself with dozens in cinema in town of Viernheim.}<\/p>\n

A masked and armed man barricaded himself in a German multiplex cinema with dozens of people inside before being killed by police, officials said.<\/p>\n

No hostages were injured at the complex in the western town of Viernheim, 75km south of Frankfurt, Hesse state Interior Minister Peter Beuth said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“The assailant moved through the cinema complex, according to the information we have now, and appeared confused,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There were hostages inside and there was a struggle [with police] until in the end he was dead.”<\/p>\n

Beuth added: “We have no information that anyone [among the cinema-goers] was injured.”<\/p>\n

A police spokeswoman in the nearby city of Darmstadt confirmed that “all the hostages were unhurt and led out of the building”. <\/p>\n

Initial reports had referred to dozens of wounded people and several shots fired, and police dispatched heavily armed special units to the site equipped with helmets and bulletproof vests.<\/p>\n

“There was an acute threat situation,” Viernheim police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Later accounts said that several people had been hurt by tear gas during the police raid but this was also denied.<\/p>\n

Mass shootings are relatively rare in Germany, where gun ownership is prevalent but firearm sales and storage are subject to strict regulation. <\/p>\n

In the worse case in recent years, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer went on a rampage with his father’s gun at his former school in 2009, killing 15 people before turning the weapon on himself.<\/p>\n

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