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German school gunman 'kills 15'
Fifteen people have been killed after a teenage gunman went on a rampage in south-west Germany, officials say.
Most of the dead are thought to have been pupils at the Albertville secondary school in Winnenden, north of Stuttgart.
The gunman, a 17-year-old former pupil, is also dead, police say.
The teenager, who was said to have been wearing black combat gear, was chased by police after fleeing the school into the centre of town.
It is unclear whether the gunman was shot by police or killed himself. Earlier reports said he had been arrested.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to make a statement on the shooting at 1600 (1500 GMT), a government spokesman said.
Nine students, three teachers and three passers-by are thought to be among the dead.
The chief reporter of the Stuttgart Journal newspaper, Kevin Latzel, told the BBC that there was a lot of confusion at the scene of the shooting.
"It's very horrible... the parents are crying, the pupils are crying and a lot of police is there and nobody knows really what happened," he said.
"They are very afraid, the pupils are calling their parents and the parents they want to pick [them] up but they can't do this, the parents they are not allowed to get into the classrooms," he added.
The attack is reported to have begun at about 0945 (0845 GMT).
The gunman "went into the school with a weapon and carried out a bloodbath", regional police chief Erwin Hetger said, the Associated Press news agency reported.
"I've never seen anything like this in my life," he said.
Witnesses said students jumped from the windows of the school after the gunman opened fire.
About 1,000 children are thought to attend the school, in the town some 20km (12 miles) north-east of Stuttgart.
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Posted in: News on March 11, 2009 @ 12:00 AM
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...This is...absolutely horrible...I believe, the victims and the teenager gun-man was not at fault. I feel saddened to know...That someone would actually be so troubled, to take someone else's life. If only everyone could cooperate and not treat others like outcasts. Of course, there are the awkward strange ones...That usually are the ones that turn into these type of people, but they were not always shy. If only they were tought how to socialize and make friends. I wish things like this would not happen, for those 15 kids...
awesome...now I want to know how many more school shooting before people get the point that school shooters are a product of their school
They always happen in the spring, don't they? Here we go again. And some people were saying it was over...
i disagree the murder scene, and feel sorry for the victims.
but doesn't this open people's eyes that school has failed in educating youngs?