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Youth arrested in relation to Munich massacre

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AAP ,
Publish Date
Mon, 25 Jul 2016, 9:04AM
A Police officer on patrol in Munich (Getty Images)
A Police officer on patrol in Munich (Getty Images)

Youth arrested in relation to Munich massacre

Author
AAP ,
Publish Date
Mon, 25 Jul 2016, 9:04AM

A 16-year-old Afghan youth has been arrested by German police on suspicion of a connection to the killing of nine people by an 18-year-old gunman in Munich.

The youth was under investigation for possibly having failed to report the plans of the gunman, who later shot himself, and may have played a role in a Facebook posting that invited people to the scene of the shooting, a police statement said on Sunday.

"There is a suspicion that the 16-year-old is a possible tacit accomplice to (Friday's) attack," it said.

Police earlier said the gunman was a deranged Iranian-German who was fixated with mass killings but not inspired by Islamist militancy.

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