'Boom, Boom, Boom - He's Killing The Children'

People caught up in the deadly attack on a Munich shopping centre have described hiding in shops, hotels, police stations and railway stations.

Maximilian Bielefeld told Sky News he was in a restaurant with his girlfriend when "suddenly everyone started to run".

"Armed police were passing by and it was total chaos. We jumped out of a window," he said.

"First of all we were hiding under a police car and some policemen came by and told us to come with them and brought us to a police station nearby.

"We heard something again and we were told to move.

"Now we are hiding in the central station, which is totally empty."

A woman named Loretta said she was in the McDonald's restaurant, near to the mall, when the pistol-wielding suspect came out of a bathroom.

She told CNN: "I come out of the toilet and I hear like an alarm, boom, boom, boom.

"He's killing the children. The children were sitting to eat. They can't run."

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Sky News presenter Sam Washington said the hotel she was in staying in was "jammed with people who've come in off the street".

"The hotel was handing out bottles of water at the same time as the very strange site of preparing afternoon teas for people," she said.

"The hotel security are in constant dialogue with police. The police have told them not to allow anyone out.

"Security are doing fairly rudimentary searches on those coming in."

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The Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall was being evacuated by police, but some employees and customers were still inside hours after the reports of the shooting began to emerge.

"Many shots were fired, I can't say how many but it's been a lot," one employee said from inside the mall.

"All the people from outside came streaming into the store and I only saw one person on the ground who was so severely injured that he definitely didn't survive.

"We have no further information, we're just staying in the back in the storage rooms.

"No police have approached us yet."