'Night of horror'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel cut short her holiday in the Alps to return to Germany.
"Behind the people of Munich is a night of horror," she said in a press conference.
Ms Merkel also extended her condolences to the victims' families.
"We share your grief, we think of you and we are suffering with you," she said.
What we don't know
Some media organisations have released a name of a young man believed to be the gunman who killed nine, and injured 27 when he opened fire outside a McDonald's restaurant near a busy mall in Munich.
His name has yet to be confirmed by police.
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Teenagers among the victims killed by teen killer
Seven of the nine victims killed in the Munich shooting were teenagers, the Munich police chief told reporters on Saturday night (Sydney time).
Among the dead are:
- Three 14-year-olds
- Two 15-year-olds
- a 17 year old, and
- 19 year old.
CNN reported that the victims also included a 20-year-old and a 45-year-old.
Three were female.
The assassin was obsessed with teen shootings, police said, and a newspaper clipping was found with the headline,
"Why do teens kill?"
He is also said to have lured young people to McDonald's with the promise of free food.
Three Turkish citizens among the nine victims dead
Three Turkish citizens were among nine people killed in a shooting attack in Munich on Friday, Turkey's foreign minister said on Saturday.
In an interview with local television station NTV, Mevlut Cavusoglu identified the Turkish victims of the attack carried out by an 18-year-old near a busy shopping mall as two teenagers and a woman.
Fifth anniversary of Norwegian killing spree could have been a trigger
German police say the 18-year-old German student who killed nine others on Friday may have wanted to mark the fifth anniversary of Norway's mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who murdered 77 people in July 2011. When they raided the home he shared with his family, they found material in his room suggesting he was obsessed by other mass shootings.
"Obvious link" between #Munich gunman and Norway's mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, German police say https://t.co/nQjzNFWFOi
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 23, 2016
Gunman suffered from depression
German police have found no evidence to connect the Munich gunman with Islamic State, police chief Hubertus Andrae says after a search of the suspect's apartment in an early morning raid.
The Munich shooting spree is being treated as a classic case of someone running amok with "no political motivation", the state prosecutor said, adding that the 18-year-old German-Iranian student may have received medical treatment for psychiatric problems.
Investigators found material on mass shootings in the gunman's room, Andrae added.
Police said they have so far been unable to interview the gunman's parents because of their current distressed state.
Named in reports as Ali Sonboly, police said there were indications the gunman had been in psychiatric care and treated for depression.
Police said 10 of those injured in the mass shooting which killed nine people are currently in a critical condition, including a 13-year-old boy.
With parts of the crime scene now cleared and released, they said it was too soon to say when the Olympic shopping centre would re-open
What we know about the gunman
The gunman was acting on his own.
He has not been named by police, but he was an 18-year-old dual Iranian-German citizen who was born and grew up in Munich.
He lived with his family in a flat that police raided.
He appears to have no links with terrorism or the Islamic State, but he seemed obsessed with frenzied attacks.
Police found books and articles suggesting he was obsessed with mass shootings, similar to the ones in the United States at schools such as Sandy Hook.
He appeared to have a mental illness.
Gunman may have lured victims to McDonalds
Police are investigating claims that the gunman sent an invitation via Facebook asking people to meet him at McDonald's at 4pm on Friday (Munich time.) He offered free food, as long as it wasn't too expensive.
It is believed that the gunman created a fake Facebook page using a woman's name.
The Daily Mail in the United Kingdom posted this image of the Facebook page.
Gunman was wielding a Glock
German police say the 18-year old gunman wielded a 9mm Glock pistol. Its serial number been illegally removed.
The gunman, a student who had grown up in Munich, was also carrying around 300 bullets in his backpack when he was later found dead of a gunshot wound, state prosecutor Robert Heimberger said on Saturday.
Police said they believe the gunman acted alone, identifying him as an 18-year-old dual Iranian-German citizen. He later killed himself after fleeing the scene.
He did not have a fire arms licence.
He was a student in Munich.
Not ISIS, says police chief
Munich Police said the attack in Germany yesterday where a Munich born man killed 10 and injured 27 people was the act of a sole perpetrator.
Police chief Hubertus Andrae has said the man was acting on his own, and there was no indication that he was part of any Islamic extremist group.
"We are talking about a sole perpetrator," said Mr Andrae.
"The offence is in no connection with immigration or migrants."
He said there was no connection with the Islamic state.
He said ten of the 27 people injured were in critical condition, including a 13-year old boy.
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Gunman had researched similar incidents
Munich police have found evidence that the sole gunman had researched similar attacks.
The police chief said a raid on the man's home had unearthed an article with the headline, "Why do students kill?"
He said the man was concerned with "frenzied attacks of a similar nature."
"We found an article titled, "Why do students kill? " He was concerned with frenzied attacks of a similar nature."
Not a terrorist attack, says police chief
Munich Police have ruled out a terrorist attack in the attack in Germany yesterday that killed 10 and injured 27 people .
Police chief Hubertus Andrae has said the perpetrator was acting on his own, and there was no indication that he was part of any Islamic extremist group.
"We are talking about a sole perpetrator," said Mr Andrae.
"The offence is in no connection with immigration or migrants."
He said there was no connection with the Islamic state.
He said ten of the 27 people injured were in critical condition, including a 13-year old boy.
Washington Post map of Munich site
The Washington Post often does brilliant graphics. This one shows the site of the Olympic shopping complex - an enormous shopping mall - across the road from McDonalds on Hanaeur Street.
Witness saw gunman killing children
A woman who was in the McDonalds with the gunman claims she saw him kill many children.
She told CNN that her son had been in the bathroom with the gunman.
"That's where he loaded his weapon," a woman named Lauretta told CNN. She only wanted to be identified by her first name.
She said she saw many children hurt.
"I hear like an alarm and boom, boom, boom ... and he's still killing the children. The children were sitting to eat. They can't run."
Lauretta said she heard the gunman say, "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic.
"I know this because I'm Muslim. I hear this and I only cry," she said.
Emergency meeting of German's security cabinet
Germany's security cabinet is to meet in a few hours with Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the tragic shooting that took place on Friday night in Munich.#Munich: At 12.30pm the security cabinet meets at the Chancellery. Chllr #Merkel,different Ministers+heads of security authorities take part
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) July 23, 2016
Where the suspect lived
Police are standing guard outside the apartment block where the suspect in the shooting in Munich lived.
He lived at 69 Dachau Street, or Dachauer Strasse.
Too soon to say whether Munich gunman was a terrorist
German police say it is too early to say whether the attack in a Munich mall where nine people were killed was a terrorist attack, Reuters reports.
Police initially thought that they were looking for up to three suspects and were treating the incident as a suspected terrorist attack.
But authorities told a news conference early on Saturday the shooter was believed to have staged the attack alone, opening fire in a fast food restaurant before moving to the mall.
Munich Police Chief Hubertus Andrae said authorities did not see similarities to an attack in southern Germany last Monday in which an axe-wielding 17-year-old asylum-seeker killed five people in an incident claimed by the Islamic State group.
He said it was premature to say whether the Friday incident was a terrorist attack, as French President Francois Hollande said, or the work of a deranged person.
Police said they were investigating a video in which the gunman is seen and heard exchanging racial slurs and profanities with another man. "We are trying to determine who said what," a police spokesman said.
The video is confusing and contains explicit language.
A sense of foreboding
After a man with an axe went crazy on a German train early last week, seriously injuring four people, Germans were preparing themselves for another attack - and they were right.
A poll released on Friday found 77 percent of Germans expected an attack to happen shortly, up from 69 percent two weeks ago, according to a survey conducted by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen pollster for broadcaster ZDF.
But 59 percent believed enough was being done to protect people from terrorism.
Shooter was a 'quiet guy', says school friend
The father of the gunman who killed nine people in Munich is being interviewed by police, the German newspaper Bild said.
Forensic teams are searching the apartment where the gunman lived with his parents.
The report says the suspect lived in the district of Maxvorstadt.
Neighbours of the attacker told German media that he was a "quiet guy."
"He lived right next to me," German newspaper Bild quoted a neighbour as saying.
"A friend of mine went to school with him and said he was rather a quiet guy. He recognised him from the videos from the scene."
Forensic teams are searching the apartment where the gunman lived with his parents.
The report says the suspect lived in the district of Maxvorstadt.
Neighbours of the attacker told German media that he was a "quiet guy."
"He lived right next to me," German newspaper Bild quoted a neighbour as saying.
"A friend of mine went to school with him and said he was rather a quiet guy. He recognised him from the videos from the scene."
Iran condemns shooting
Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned a deadly shooting spree in Germany's Munich, stressing the need for concerted action by the international community to fight off terrorism.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi expressed condolences to the German government and nation on the tragic shooting attack that has killed at least 10 people.
German police said the shooter was an 18-year-old dual Iranian-German citizen. He later killed himself after fleeing the scene.
The killing of innocent and defenseless civilians was another blot on human history, he told local news.
Qassemi called for a broad and ceaseless fight against terrorism without any double standards.
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