Gunmen went on a shooting rampage in a shopping mall in the southern German city of Munich on Friday, killing and wounding many people, police said.

Authorities were evacuating people from the Olympia mall but many others were hiding inside.The Bavarian Interior Ministry said three people were dead, NTV television reported. A Munich police spokeswoman said multiple people were killed or wounded.LATEST STORY: Munich mall shooting: what we knowSeveral people were believed to have been killed on Friday in a shooting rampage at a Munich shopping centre, with the attackers still believed to be at large."We believe we are dealing with a shooting rampage," the spokeswoman said.More than one gunman was believed to be involved and no one had been arrested, she said.WATCH: Chilling moment Munich gunman opens fireAn unverified video appears to show a gunman opening fire at people at a Munich shopping centre on Friday. "We believe there was more than one perpetrator. The first reports came at 6 p.m., the shooting apparently began at a McDonald's in the shopping centre. There are still people in the shopping centre. We are trying to get the people out and take care of them."An unconfirmed video appears to show shoppers fleeing from a shooter outside a McDonald's:Jessie Karangu on TwitterShoppers can be seen here running from a shooter in #Munich (via @NewsThisSecond)pic.twitter.com/fV9Ng6RoVDssEmergency vehicles were seen in the streets outside, as passers-by looked on."Attention -- avoid the neighbourhood around the OEZ. Stay in your homes. Leave the street," the Munich police tweet said.Police and firefighters are seen near a shopping mall amid a shooting on July 22, 2016 in Munich. Image: AFPPolice have told people to stay in their homes or, if outside, to seek shelter indoors while the emergency remains ongoing.The Munich police Facebook page said witnesses had reported seeing three different gunmen. Those witnesses also said there was shooting in nearby streets as well as inside the Olympia shopping mall.Staff in the mall were still in hiding, an employee told Reuters by telephone."Many shots were fired, I can't say how many but it's been a lot," the employee, who declined to be identified, said from the mall in Munich."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."Munich transport authorities said they had halted several bus, train and tram lines.Germany has so far escaped the kind of large-scale jihadist attacks seen in neighbouring France.But the shooting comes just days after a teenage asylum seeker went on the rampage with an axe and a knife on a regional train in Germany on Monday, injuring five people, two of them critically.Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the teenager was believed to be a "lone wolf" attacker who appeared to have been "inspired" by the Islamic State group but was not a member of the jihadist network.Authorities said he shouted "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) three times as he rampaged through the train carriage.The attacker is believed to be either Afghan or Pakistani and investigators are still trying to determine his identity.The train rampage triggered calls for Germany to impose an upper limit on the number of refugees coming into the country.The assailant had arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Germany in June 2015 and had been staying with a foster family in the region of the attack for the last two weeks.A record 1.1 million migrants and refugees were let in to Germany last year, with Syrians making up the largest group followed by Afghans.In the latest attack in France, 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel used a truck to mow down 84 people, including children, in the Riviera city of Nice last week. It was the third major attack on French soil in the past 18 months, after the jihadist carnage in Paris in November and the shootings at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in January 2015.In March, Islamic State-claimed suicide bomb attacks at Brussels airport and a city metro station left 32 people dead...