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"It was a male person and we know that he acted here with a
long-barreled gun," a Munich police spokesperson said.
"Due to the intervention of the police, the perpetrator was
stopped and probably died at the scene," Herrmann told
reporters.
There were no indications of other suspects or incidents in the
Bavarian state capital, Munich police said on X.
The incident occurred on the anniversary of the 1972 attack at
the Olympic Games in Munich in which Palestinian Black September
gunmen murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
The Israeli foreign ministry said the consulate was closed on
Thursday for a commemoration of the Munich Olympics massacre and
no one from the consulate staff was injured in the incident.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser described it as a serious
incident but declined to speculate on the circumstances and
background to it. "The protection of Israeli facilities has top
priority," she said.
The museum and research institute, which focuses on the history
of Germany's 1933-45 Nazi regime, is located near the Israeli
consulate in Munich's Maxvorstadt neighbourhood.
Police had said earlier a large operation was underway in
response to an incident and asked the public to avoid the area
in a post on social media platform X. A helicopter had been
deployed to provide a better overview of the situation.
(Reporting by Anja GuderAdditional reporting by James Mackenzie
in Jerusalem; Reporting by Rachel More; writing by Madeline
Chambers; editing by Matthias Williams and Mark Heinrich)
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