Munich attack: Facebook activates safety check tool

July 23, 2016 11:04

Social media giant Facebook activated its safety check for those caught up in the Munich shooting after a gunman opened up fire near Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich.

According to Metro.co.uk, this is the fourth time in little over a month Facebook has activated the tool. The feature allows people to notify their friends if they are in the affected area and mark themselves as safe.

The tool was put into use in the Bastille Day terror attack in Nice when a man drove a lorry into crowds of people, killing 84. It was also used in early June when a man killed 49 people in a gay club in Orlando, Florida, and yet again following the suicide bombings at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, when 45 people were killed.

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