Fatal shooting at Hungary university

A student opened fire at a university in the southern Hungarian city of Pecs today, killing one student and wounding three other…

A student opened fire at a university in the southern Hungarian city of Pecs today, killing one student and wounding three other people, a university spokesman said.

Zoltan Gyorffy, press chief of Pecs University, told Reuters the shooting happened at the biophysics research institute and the attacker was a pharmacology student.

He said the student opened fire and killed another student. Another student, a teacher and a cleaner were seriously hurt. "Both the attacker and the victim were Hungarians," He said.

National news agency MTI said the police had caught the 23-year-old attacker, whose motives were unknown.

Reuters

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