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The deranged Munich shooter that killed nine during a bloody rampage bought his gun on the dark web as part of year-long plot.

Baby-faced gunman Ali Sonboldy, 18, opened fire near a busy shopping mall and McDonald's restaurant on Friday evening, reportedly in revenge for years of bullying.

Seven of his victims were themselves teenagers, who he lured to their deaths after hacking a girl's Facebook account and offering free food from McDonald's.

Although Sonboldy was believed to have carried out the attack after years of bullying, the victims are not believed to be his classmates.

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Bavarian prosecutor Thomas Steinkraus-Koch said during a press conference: "It is not the case that he deliberately selected."

Mr Steinkraus-Koch said the Glock 17 pistol the teen used in his killings had been bought off the notorious Dark Web - where numerous illegal items are bought and sold.

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He added that the gun had its serial number scratched off but appeared to have originated in Slovakia and had been reactivated.

Part of the initial findings from the Bavarian Criminal Police Office found that the 18-year-old German-Iranian could have been plotting his attack for a year after visiting the site of a previous school shooting.

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Robert Heimberger, head of Bavaria's criminal police, said Sonboldy visited the town of Winnenden where 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer shot 15 dead - and took photographs.

Mr Heimberger added that the parents of the gunman remained in shock and were not able to be interviewed.

Officers also found that Sonboldy was treated for depression at a psychiatric hospital for two months in 2015.

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Between July and September last year he was hospitalised and under the care of a specialist youth psychiatrist.

Police said medical documents and drugs showed that the last contact he appeared to have with a doctor was in June this year.

As the first pictures of those killed emerged it was revealed one brave victim, Huseyin Dayicik,19, managed to save his sister's life when used his body as a human shield.

Other victims included Dijamant Zabergja, 21, Armela Segashi and her 14-year-old friend Sabina Sulaj, football fanatic Gulliano Kollmann, 18, and 15-year-old Can Leyla.

Bavarian state crime office president Robert Heimberger said Sonboly was carrying more than 300 bullets in his backpack and pistol when he shot himself, after injuring 35.

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The teen was also believed to have been inspired by Anders Breivik, who in 2011 shot dead 69 attendees at a youth summer camp hours after murdering eight others by detonating a van bomb in Oslo.

However, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said it was too early to associate the Munich shootings with Breivik.