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18 dead in German school shooting

ERFURT (GERMANY) APRIL 26 . A shooting rampage at a high school in the eastern German city of Erfurt left 18 dead today, in the worst such incident in Germany in decades. Police said that 14 teachers, two students, a policeman and one of two attackers were killed. The police chief, Manfred Grube, said that there were bodies lying throughout the school and that the attacking student killed himself as police approached.

Police said the attack began as 700 students were sitting for examinations. As a math exam was being handed out, the attacker said, "I'm not going to write anything", and began shooting, according to one of the students.

Officers who rushed to the scene were then caught in an exchange of fire, police said. The shooting was the worst in Europe since the March 1996 rampage in Dunblane, Scotland, when a mentally-ill man shot dead 16 children and their teacher before turning his gun on himself. — AFP

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