First  came the crack of gunfire, then the panicked screams and the wail of sirens as an armed attacker launched a killing spree in the German city of Munich on Friday.

Nine people were killed and 16 wounded in the teenager's shooting rampage.German Chancellor Angela Merkel convened her security council yesterday after the shooting, which came just days after an axe attack on a train in the same German state, Bavaria, and just more than a week after a truck attack in the French Riviera c...