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Gunman kills 10 in German school shooting rampage |
2009-03-11 |
TEN people have been killed in a school shooting in Germany, according to local television reports. The editor of a local newspaper has told television channel N-TV that eight schoolchildren and two adults have been killed, reports said. "The attacker just started shooting wildly," N-TV quoted a witness as saying. Police said the reports were of an attack in Winnenden, northeast of Stuttgart. The gunman, who was wearing a black combat uniform, fled after the attack and was seen heading for the town centre. CNN reported that the attacker remains at large. |
Posted by:tipper |
#1 Update POLICE have shot dead a teenage gunman who killed at least 11 people at a school in southern Germany, police sources says. Police said that several others were wounded in today's shooting spree at the secondary school in Winnenden, near the southern city of Stuttgart. An earlier media report said the gunman had shot himself in the car park of a shopping centre. |
Posted by: tipper 2009-03-11 08:23 |