MUNICH — A manhunt is underway for a shooter or shooters who opened **** at a shopping mall in Munich, ******* six people and wounding others, ****** and media reports said. The city transit system shut down and ****** asked people to stay inside their homes and otherwise avoid public places.

“At the moment no culprit has been arrested,” ****** in the Bavarian capital said on social media. “The search is taking place at high speed.”

The city of Munich sent a smartphone alert telling people to stay indoors and German rail company Deutsche Bahn stopped train traffic to Munich’s main station.

****** said witnesses reported seeing three people with **** near the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall.

Munich ****** spokeswoman Claudia Kuenzel told The Associated Press there were “several **** and *******” in the ********. She could not provide exact numbers. Bavarian public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk and Munich-based Focus magazine, citing sources they did not identify, said six people were ******.

Munich ****** spokesman Thomas Baumann told German news agency dpa the ****** started at a fast food restaurant in the mall shortly before 6 p.m. local time.

Bayrischer Rundfunk reported that shops in the centre of Munich had closed with customers inside though ****** said reports of ***** ***** at a location downtown had been a false alarm.

****** responded in large numbers to the mall in the northern part of Munich, not far from the city’s Olympic Stadium in the Moosach district of the Bavarian capital.

It was the second ****** in Germany in less than a week. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan ******* four people in an axe-and-knife ****** on a regional train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, and another woman outside as he fled. All survived, although one man from the train remains in life-threatening condition. The ******** was shot and ****** by ******.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the train ******, but authorities have said the teen likely acted alone.