Shooting at German university lecture hall leads to several wounded
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Lone shooter opens fire in lecture hall in southwestern city of Heidelberg; police give no further details but media reports say perpetrator turned gun on himself.
A lone gunman wounded several people at a lecture hall in the southwestern German city of Heidelberg on Monday, police said.
Police said in a brief statement that the perpetrator was dead, but didn’t give details regarding how he died. Police had earlier asked people on Twitter to avoid the Neuenheimer Feld area of Heidelberg, where the city’s university campus is located.
Police didn’t specify how many people were wounded, or how seriously, and there was no information on their identities or that of the suspected shooter. The university’s press office declined to give any details on the shooting and referred all inquiries to police.
Police said the weapon used in the shooting was a long-barreled firearm.
“A lone perpetrator injured several people in a lecture hall with a long gun. The perpetrator is dead,” Mannheim police said in a statement.
A major police operation was underway at the university’s Neuenheimer Feld campus, they added on Twitter, urging people to steer clear of the area “so that rescue workers and emergency services can travel freely.”
German news agency dpa cited unidentified security sources as saying that the gunman killed himself.
Heidelberg is located south of Frankfurt and has about 160,000 inhabitants. Its university is one of Germany’s best-known.
The university’s Neuenheimer Feld campus hosts natural sciences departments, part of the university clinic as well as a botanical garden.
Germany has been hit in recent years by a spate of attacks, mostly perpetrated by jihadists or far-right militants.
School shootings, however, are relatively rare in Germany, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in Europe.
In 2009, a former pupil killed nine students, three teachers and three passersby in a school shooting at Winnenden, also in Baden-Wuerttemberg. The gunman then killed himself.
In 2002, a 19-year-old former student, apparently in revenge for having been expelled, gunned down 16 people including 12 teachers and two students at a school in the central German city of Erfurt. He too then killed himself.
