German police arrest suspect after several people wounded in a suspected rampage at a secondary school in Bavaria.
MUNICH: German police said several people had been wounded and a suspect arrested in an attack at a secondary school in the southern German state of Bavaria on Wednesday.
The perpetrator appeared to have deliberately targeted the school in a suspected “rampage”, a police spokeswoman told AFP.
The number and severity of injuries were still unclear, she added.
Police said people should avoid the area following the incident at the Welfen grammar school in Schongau, a town just north of the Alps.
“A suspected perpetrator has been arrested,” local police said in an X post.
“A major police operation is underway. We are on site with numerous forces.”
Serious violence at schools is rare but not unknown in Germany.
Last year, a 17-year-old seriously wounded a 45-year-old teacher at a vocational college in the western city of Essen and was shot by police before his arrest.
In 2002, a 19-year-old gunman killed 16 people, including 12 teachers and two pupils, at a school in the eastern city of Erfurt.
