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The Dresden hostage-taker is dead. The police announced this on Saturday.
The 40-year-old suffered fatal injuries when the hostages were accessed and freed.
The specific circumstances are the subject of further investigations.
According to police findings, the 40-year-old killed his 62-year-old mother in an apartment building in the Prohlis district of Dresden in the morning.
Around 7:20 a.m., the police found the lifeless woman.
An emergency doctor who was called could only determine their death.
Afterwards, the man is said to have gone to an office building in which the station "Radio Dresden" is also based.
Shots are said to have been fired there on Saturday morning before the hostage-taking in the Altmarktgalerie.
The third location was then the Dresden Altmarkt-Galerie.
There, according to the police, the man took an employee and a child hostage.
The police evacuated the mall and adjacent areas.
Several people were accommodated in a bus of the Dresden transport company and were cared for there.
The famous Striezelmarkt also remained closed for the time being - it only opened again in the early afternoon.
The police asked because of the kidnapping to avoid downtown Dresden.
A police spokesman explained the motive of the alleged perpetrator that the man had been very conspicuous in his mental behavior.
"We are most likely to assume a mental illness."
Other than that, the police were not aware of anything.