Two people were killed in a “violent incident” at a school near Berlin, local media reported Thursday, saying an 18-year-old woman student and a 30-year-old man had died.
Regional public broadcaster RBB and a local daily said the alarm had been raised at a secondary school in the town of Gosen-Neu Zittau, just outside the German capital.
The Maerkische Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported online that the man arrested was 19 years old and the ex-boyfriend of the victim.
It said the 30-year-old man died while trying to intervene, without specifying whether a weapon was used or whether other people were injured.
Police earlier confirmed only that two people had suffered severe injuries, that they were on the scene and that a suspect had been arrested.
Images from the streets near the privately run secondary school showed an ambulance and many other emergency service vehicles, while rescue helicopters were deployed.
A report by the German Press Agency clarified that the events took place at the Docemus school campus. The village of Gosen-Neu Zittau in eastern Brandenburg has about 3,500 inhabitants.
Last month, two girls were seriously wounded and a 16-year-old suspect arrested after an attack at a secondary school in southern Germany.
Authorities said at the time that the suspect in that attack had been suffering a “mental health emergency”.
Discussion about this post