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A 26-year-old female police officer was critically wounded and two others injured in a shooting incident at a train station in Munich, Germany.
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The incident occurred at the Unterfoehring Station on Tuesday morning.
Passengers were evacuated and the area around the station cordoned off.
A press release posted on the website of the Munich police department identified the suspect as a 37-year-old German male and the sole perpetrator.
The statement stated that all injured persons were taken to the hospital and there is no imminent threat to the public.
According to the statement, the suspect disarmed the officer, who suffered a life-threatening head injury, and discharged the weapon in the station.
Suburban train station #Unterföhring – Several persons wounded by gunshots. Police woman seriously wounded. One person has been arrested.
— Polizei München (@PolizeiMuenchen) June 13, 2017
The Telegraph reported that the police said there was "no political or religious motive" in the shooting, adding that the attacker acted out of "personal" reasons. "The sole male perpetrator was motivated by personal reasons. There is no political or religious background here," police spokesman Marcus da Gloria Martins told the reporters.
Bavarian radio added: "According to police information it is probably not a terrorist attack."
The Munich police first posted on social media that the suspect, who was also shot, had been apprehended.
According to local German media, approximately 100 police officers had gathered at the scene, while helicopters hovered above.
Bild reported that Special Deployment Commandos (SEK) – a specialized-operation police unit – had also been deployed.
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