Gunman opens fire near Israeli consulate in Munich

Munich police tweeted that “police officers saw a person who appeared to be carrying a firearm. The officers used their service weapons and the person was hit and injured. There are currently no reports of any other injuries.”

The police said that there were no indications of other suspects or incidents in the Bavarian state capital.

Local law enforcement appealed to the public not to post images of the incident to social media.

German weekly Der Spiegel reported that a “major police operation” was underway in the area, which has been blocked off and closed to traffic.

The Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism is also located close to where the incident took place.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser described the shooting as “a serious incident” and said that she is in contact with emergency services but did not want to speculate on any further details.

She said that the protection of Israeli institutions in Germany was the highest priority.

German police said they shot a suspect in central Munich on September 5, near the documentation centre on the Nazi era and the Israeli consulate, and advised people to stay clear of the area (Credit: LUKAS BARTH-TUTTAS/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images

The attack comes on the 52nd anniversary of the 1972 Munich Massacre, when eight gunmen from the Palestinian terrorist group Black September burst into the Israeli team’s Olympic village quarters, killing two Israelis and kidnapping nine. West German neo-Nazis gave the group logistical assistance.

All nine hostages, as well as eight terrorists and a German police officer, died during a botched rescue effort by West German police. The three surviving perpetrators were arrested and then released the next month in a hostage exchange that followed the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 615.

This is a developing story.