Teenage killer planned attack 'for a year'

The teenage gunman who killed nine people in Munich on Friday had been planning his attack for a year, German authorities said yesterday.

David Sonboly, 18, who had a Glock pistol and more than 300 bullets, killed himself after the attack.

The Bavarian State Crime Office said he had bought the illegal pistol used in the attack on the internet.

Vigils continue in the Bavarian capital to commemorate the victims, seven of whom were teenagers. A further 35 people were injured.

The crime office told a news conference that the victims of the attack had not been specifically targeted and were not classmates of the gunman.

The news conference also heard that Sonboly had spent two months as an inpatient at a mental care facility in 2015 and was afterwards treated as an outpatient.

Officials said there was no evidence of any political motivation.

MACHETE ATTACK KILLS 1

A 21-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker yesterday killed a woman and injured two people with a machete in the southwest German city of Reutlingen in an incident local police said did not bear the hallmarks of a "terrorist attack".

A statement said that the man, who was arrested, "had a dispute" with the woman and killed her "with a machete" before injuring a second woman and a man. The attacker was "known to police", it said.