A police officer walked outside the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall on Friday.

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A police officer walked outside the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall on Friday.

Officers with guns drawn worked to protect a group of people being escorted from the mall.

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Officers with guns drawn worked to protect a group of people being escorted from the mall.

Special police forces approached the scene of a shooting at a shopping centre in Munich.

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Special police forces approached the scene of a shooting at a shopping centre in Munich.

Police secured the area in a nearby underground station.

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Police secured the area in a nearby underground station.

MUNICH SLIDER1 In this frame grab taken from video, people run from the Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping centre after a shooting, in Munich, Germany, Friday, July 22, 2016. Munich police confirm shots have been fired at Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping center but say they don't have any details about casualties.(Thamina Stoll/UGC via AP)

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A frame grab, taken from video, showed people running from the mall.

MUNICH SLIDER1 epa05437079 Special police securing the area at Stachus hotel after a shootout in Munich, Germany, 22 July 2016. Several people were reported dead by the police and several more injured after a shooting in the Olympia shopping centre in Munich. EPA/ANDREAS GEBERT

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Police secured the area at the Stachus hotel.

MUNICH SLIDER1 MUNICH, GERMANY - JULY 22: Police officers respond to the shooting at the Olympia Einkaufzentrum (OEZ) at July 22, 2016 in Munich, Germany. According to reports, several people have been killed and an unknown number injured in a shooting at a shopping centre in the north-western Moosach district in Munich. Police are hunting the attacker or attackers who are thought to be still at large. (Photo by Marc Mueller/Getty Images)

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Police officers took up positions around the shopping center.

MUNICH SLIDER1 Policemen stand at the underground station Georg-Brauchle-Ring close to the Olympia shopping centre in which a shooting was reported in Munich, southern Germany, Friday July 22, 2016. According to media reports police expect several people being killed. (Lukas Schulze/dpa via AP)

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Policemen secured the underground station near the shopping center.

Authorities responded to the shooting in Munich, Germany.

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Authorities responded to the shooting in Munich, Germany.

Nine dead in Munich mall attack

Police said Friday that they had found a ninth body at the shooting scene and were determining whether it was that of an attacker.

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Munich police urged social media users to refrain from speculating about the attack.

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Clergy hold rally to commend Boston police

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Officials and religious leaders attended a wreath-laying as a tribute to the victims of the Nice truck attack on July 21.

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DVDs began replacing VCRs in American homes just a decade after VCRs became common.

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From left: Barrington Stage?s Julianne Boyd, Shakespeare & Company?s Ariel Bock, Berkshire Theatre Group?s Kate Maguire, and Williamstown Theatre Festival?s Mandy Greenfield.

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Gabriel Bateman and Teresa Palmer in ?Lights Out.?

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