Police in the southern German city of Ulm have ended a hostage situation on the city’s central cathedral square with gunfire. The man had taken several people hostage in a shop on Ulm’s busy Münsterplatz shopping precinct on Friday evening, public prosecutor Michael Bischofberger confirmed at the scene on Friday evening. When the man tried to leave the shop with a hostage and flee the police fired several shots at him. The suspect was injured and is being treated in hospital, the public prosecutor said. The man’s motives were initially unclear. All hostages remained unharmed. According to a st…