TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Saturday condemned a deadly gun attack in the Germany city of Munich.

On Friday evening an 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman who apparently acted alone opened fire near a busy shopping mall in Munich, killing at least ten people and injuring 16.

The pistol-wielding attacker, identified by Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae as a dual national from Munich, was later found dead of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Though Qassemi said that the international community should consider the fight against terrorism as an “immediate and serious demand”, German authorities said it was too early to say whether it was a terrorist attack but that the shooter was believed to have staged the attack alone, opening fire in a fast food restaurant before moving to the mall.

According to Reuters, Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to meet her chief of staff Peter Altmaier, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere and intelligence officials on Saturday to review the incident.

Police said they were investigating a video in which the gunman is heard shouting "I am German" and exchanging racial slurs and profanities with another man. "We are trying to determine who said what," a police spokesman said.

Police said the gunman had no link to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and was mentally troubled and had extensively researched spree killings.

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