German police have detained a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday in connection with a school attack that left at least four people injured, including two 13-year-old girls seriously.
The alarm was raised in Schongau, 80km southwest of Munich, in Bavaria, around 12.50pm.
According to local media, several people suffered stab wounds on the grounds of the Welfen school, with 800 students.
A 16-year-old was detained by police near the school with a knife and a gun and brought in for questioning.
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“Several calls reached us that there were many injured at the school in Schongau and we rushed to the scene with all available forces from the region,” said Munich police spokesman Thomas Schelshorn.
Schelshorn said the 16-year-old was a former student of the school, now in psychiatric treatment, and that there were indications he knew the two girls.
The spokesman declined to offer further details on the victim – including how they were injured.
Bavaria’s interior minister Joachim Hermann said he was “outraged by this terrible attack, but happy that, as it appears now, there were no fatalities”.
