Racist German killer shots dead nine people

A gunman suspected of shooting nine people dead at two shisha bars in Germany is believed to have a far-right background, prosecutors said.  He was found dead in his apartment.

The attack took place on at multiple locations in Hanau, a city around 25 kilometers east of Frankfurt. Federal prosecutors are treating the mass shooting - one of the deadliest in Germany in years - as an act of terrorism.

The police do not make public the names of the victims or their ethnicity. The German media inform unofficially that among the victims of the shooting is a Polish woman who worked as a waitress.

(PAP)