Masked gunman shot dead at German cinema, police unsure if weapon was real

Latest: Hesse's interior minister, Peter Beuth, said it was not clear whether the weapon was real.

• Armed man entered the Kinopolis movie theatre
• Man barricaded himself into cinema for around three hours
• The man was shot dead by police
• Nobody else was injured in incident
• Police unsure if weapon was real
• Police: No indications of an Islamist background

Update - 5.45pm: Officers "successively entered the cinema and were able to locate the man and the people he was holding," Ms Kobus said.