BERLIN, July 22 (Xinhua) -- After a shootout in a shopping mall that killed at least nine people on Friday night, the Munich police have confiscated the vehicle of the offender or offenders.
The dark gray medium-sized car was taken away on a tow truck, said a police officer on the spot to German media Focus Online.
The number of the people died in a shootout in a Munich's shopping mall rose to nine, according to the latest update Munich police announced on their Twitter account on Friday evening.
After the police firstly announced eight fatal casualties on Twitter, they updated with another Tweet saying that the police is verifying the possibility of another dead person they had found "being involved in the shooting".
In addition, the policed confirmed "several injured, whose number is not yet known yet" in a latest press release.
Meanwhile, German media Bayerischer Rundfunk reported that about 20 injured are being treated in hospitals, while the German N24 TV channel reported that several children were among the seriously injured.
Munich police reported on early Friday evening that they were carrying out a large-scale operation in a Munich shopping center due to a shootout.
German investigators assume three perpetrators, for whom the police is searching in the whole urban area of Munich.
