Nine wounded in horrific school attack

Nine pupils are hurt, two seriously, after a teenager attacked their school in the Bavarian town of Ansbach with petrol bombs on Thursday. The unnamed teenage boy was also carrying an axe and two knives.

Police reported getting an emergency call at 8:35 a.m. on Thursday morning, after the attacker had thrown molotov cocktails into classrooms at the Carolinum Gymnasium in Ansbach, around 40 kilometres south-east of Nuremberg. Police arrived quickly on the scene and shot the teen in the stomach before arresting him, taking him to hospital and evacuating the school building. There are reports that the boy is a former pupil of the school.

This is the second serious attack on German school pupils this year. In March, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmar shot dead 15 people in the town of Winneden, just outside of Stuttgart.