Shooting at the University of Heidelberg in southwestern Germany. A gunman injured several people in an attack in the university’s lecture hall. The man, who acted alone, committed suicide. As the Bild website reports, the killer opened fire with a long-barreled gun in the lecture hall and injured several people before aiming his weapon at himself. According to the Dpa news agency, it was a student who shot the shooting. The young man had no political or religious motivations for his gesture. The attacker had more than one long-barreled weapon and would have killed himself on the spot.
Previously, police had said that a large deployment of agents and emergency services were on the scene in the Neuenheimer Feld area of the city, which houses the university facilities. For now, it is not clear how many are injured and what their conditions are.
Heidelberg is a city of about 16 thousand inhabitants, located south of Frankfurt, in Baden-Württemberg. Its university is one of the best known in Germany, the oldest in Germany, founded in 1386.