Student Shoots Dead Fellow Classmate At German School

Police and prosecutors in the southwestern city of Offenburg said they suspected a "personal motive" in the dispute between the two minors.

A pupil shot and killed a fellow student at a German school on Thursday, authorities said, in the latest in a series of youth murders in the country. Police and prosecutors in the southwestern city of Offenburg said they suspected a "personal motive" in the dispute between the two minors.

The assailant was arrested in a classroom at the school where he fired on his fellow pupil of the same age. The victim later died of his wound in hospital.

Around 300 emergency responders arrived on the scene and 180 pupils were evacuated to a neighbouring athletics hall and picked up by their parents.