School Tragedy
18 Killed in German School Shooting,
6 Others Injured, Police Say
From Wire Reports
E R F U R T, Germany, April 26 ? A total of 18 people died in a bloodbath at a high school in the eastern German city of Erfut today, police said. Six others were also injured in the rampage, according to the police.
There were conflicting reports over whether there was more than one gunman involved in the shooting, but police sources said a former student of the Gutenberg school who was only recently expelled had opened fire and was now dead.
Police commandos were sent into the school in a residential area of Erfurt today to try to get students out and hunt down the assailant.
Shocked and upset students who fled the shooting reported seeing a man roaming the hallways with a gun.
"I heard shooting and thought it was a joke," 13-year-old Melanie Steinbrueck told the Associated Press, choking back tears. "But then I saw a teacher dead in the hallway in front of Room 209 and a gunman in black carrying a weapon."
"The guy was dressed all in black ? gloves, cap, everything was black," Juliane Blank, 13, told the Associated Press. "He must have opened the door without being heard and forced his way into the classroom."
"We ran out into the hallways. We just wanted to get out," she said.
Outside the school, a police officer with a megaphone urged parents to register their children's names before leaving the scene. Groups of dazed and shocked students huddled in the street, hugging and crying.
A handwritten sign reading "HILFE" ? Help ? was pasted to a fourth-floor window and the face of a girl could be seen through the window in the classroom.
Police said they received a call at 11:05 a.m. from the school janitor, who said someone was shooting in the building. An initial team of officers arrived on the scene shortly after and entered the school. One of the policemen was among those killed.
Ambulances and police cars massed in front of the school, where several hundred children in grades five through 12 were in classes when the shooting began.
WTF is the world coming to? When is something gonna give and people realize how to act like civilized damn People? The past few months I believe the world has digressed back to the neanderthal period! Kill or be Killed.
18 Killed in German School Shooting,
6 Others Injured, Police Say
From Wire Reports
E R F U R T, Germany, April 26 ? A total of 18 people died in a bloodbath at a high school in the eastern German city of Erfut today, police said. Six others were also injured in the rampage, according to the police.
There were conflicting reports over whether there was more than one gunman involved in the shooting, but police sources said a former student of the Gutenberg school who was only recently expelled had opened fire and was now dead.
Police commandos were sent into the school in a residential area of Erfurt today to try to get students out and hunt down the assailant.
Shocked and upset students who fled the shooting reported seeing a man roaming the hallways with a gun.
"I heard shooting and thought it was a joke," 13-year-old Melanie Steinbrueck told the Associated Press, choking back tears. "But then I saw a teacher dead in the hallway in front of Room 209 and a gunman in black carrying a weapon."
"The guy was dressed all in black ? gloves, cap, everything was black," Juliane Blank, 13, told the Associated Press. "He must have opened the door without being heard and forced his way into the classroom."
"We ran out into the hallways. We just wanted to get out," she said.
Outside the school, a police officer with a megaphone urged parents to register their children's names before leaving the scene. Groups of dazed and shocked students huddled in the street, hugging and crying.
A handwritten sign reading "HILFE" ? Help ? was pasted to a fourth-floor window and the face of a girl could be seen through the window in the classroom.
Police said they received a call at 11:05 a.m. from the school janitor, who said someone was shooting in the building. An initial team of officers arrived on the scene shortly after and entered the school. One of the policemen was among those killed.
Ambulances and police cars massed in front of the school, where several hundred children in grades five through 12 were in classes when the shooting began.
WTF is the world coming to? When is something gonna give and people realize how to act like civilized damn People? The past few months I believe the world has digressed back to the neanderthal period! Kill or be Killed.
