A 16-year-old Afghan youth who was arrested on Sunday had been in contact via WhatsApp with an 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich two days earlier and also met him just before the attack, Bavarian officials said.

The teenager behind the deadly shooting rampage at a Munich mall had planned his attack for a year and chose his victims at random, investigators said.

THREE men have been arrested in Germany over a failed attempt to blackmail the country’s richest woman, BMW heiress Susanne Klatten, prosecutors said.