No Bulgarian Citizens Hurt in Munich Shooting, Consul General Tells PM

No Bulgarian citizens were killed or wounded in Friday’s shooting near a shopping mall in Munich according to information available so far, the country’s consul general in the German city, Antoaneta Baycheva, has said.

The diplomat has assured Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov that she is liaising with German authorities about the incident, according to a statement from the government press office in Sofia.

Bulgarian diplomatic offices in Germany are monitoring the situation in Munich and will render help to Bulgarian citizens in case of need, according to the statement.

The emergency phone number of Bulgaria’s Consulate General in Munich is 0049 172 888 10 56.