MUNICH, Germany: The teenager who shot dead nine people in a gun rampage in Munich was "obsessed" with mass killers such as Norwegian right-wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik and had no links to the Islamic State group, police said Saturday.

Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on the continent in just over a week, after 18-year-old David Ali Sonboly went on a shooting spree at a shopping center on Friday evening before turning the gun on himself.

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