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German chancellor to chair security council meeting over Munich tragedy

23 July 2016 15:35 (UTC+04:00)
German chancellor to chair security council meeting over Munich tragedy

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will on July 23 chair a meeting of the national security council in connection with the Munich tragedy, RIA Novosti reported.

A meeting of the security council will be held with Chancellor Merkel, a number of ministers and heads of security services in Munich at 12:30, Steffen Seibert, official representative of the German government, tweeted.

A gunman opened fire in a crowded Munich shopping mall and a nearby McDonald’s killing nine people and wounding 16 others on July 22.

Reportedly, the attacker was an 18-year-old German-Iranian man, who after the shootings killed himself.

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