Armed man storms shopping centre killing woman and taking shoppers hostage as Christmas market evacuated
A GUNMAN killed a woman in German city of Dresden today before storming a shopping centre and taking hostages.
Cops have shut the famous Striezelmarkt Christmas market in the city and urged people to avoid the area.
According to BILD, an armed man killed a woman, tried to storm a local radio station and fired several shots before fleeing into a shopping mall where he took several hostages.
It’s understood the gunman barricaded himself inside a pharmacy inside the Altmarkt-Galerie shopping centre.
“The Dresden Police Department is currently carrying out an operation in downtown Dresden,” cops said.
“The background is the suspicion of a hostage situation.”
Radio Dresden earlier reported shots had been fired at a building near the main train station.
Police have evacuated a shopping mall and surrounding areas.
Dresden’s Striezelmarkt is considered to be the oldest Christmas market in Germany – and the oldest in the world.
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