An axe-wielding man (19) threw a petrol bomb into his own school in Germany today, injuring 10 students before police shot him in the stomach and arrested him.
Police evacuated the Carolinum secondary school in the southern town Ansbach, a spokesman for rescue services said. Two of the victims were seriously injured and it was unclear whether more than one petrol bomb had been used in the attack, he added.
Police said the man was armed with an axe and was arrested after they shot and seriously wounded him in the stomach.
The incident is the latest in a spate of school attacks in Germany. In March, a 17-year old killed 15 people in a shooting spree at his former school in the southwest town of Winnenden. He later killed himself.
In 2006, a masked man armed with rifles and explosives attacked a school in the western town of Emsdetten, wounding 11 people before killing himself.
Germany suffered its worst school shooting in April 2002 when a gunman killed 17 people, including himself, at a school in the eastern city of Erfurt.
Reuters