Berlin, Europe Brief News – At least one person was injured when a suspect opened fire on Thursday at the Lloyd Gymnasium, a secondary school in the centre of Bremerhaven.
Police in Germany’s northern city of Bremerhaven have arrested a suspected attacker.
“The armed person has been arrested and is in police custody,” the police said, adding the injured person, who has been taken to hospital, was not a pupil.
“Students are in their classrooms with their teachers. The police have the situation on the ground under control,” the statement said.
German paper Bild said the injured person was a woman.
It also reported that a second suspect appeared to be on the run. It earlier reported they were armed with a crossbow.
Police said they were ascertaining whether more than one person was involved.
School shootings are relatively rare in Germany, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in Europe. But a recent spate has rattled the population.
Bremerhaven police said on Twitter that a large deployment was under way in the city centre and asked residents to avoid the Mayor-Martin-Donandt square and surrounding streets, in the vicinity of the Lloyd secondary school.
Last week, investigators in Germany’s city of Essen said they foiled a school bomb assault, as they arrested a 16-year-old who is suspected to have been planning a “Nazi terror attack.” Police in Essen stormed the teen’s room overnight, taking him into custody and uncovering 16 “pipe bombs,” as well as antisemitic and anti-Muslim material.
