Boy shoots teacher, himself

Munich - A German schoolboy shot and gravely wounded a teacher yesterday then turned the gun on himself in the latest in a series…

Munich - A German schoolboy shot and gravely wounded a teacher yesterday then turned the gun on himself in the latest in a series of school shootings, police said.

A police spokesman said the 16-year-old boy and the 57-year-old schoolmaster were being treated in hospital for severe head wounds. The shooting took place at a boarding school in Brannenburg, in rural southern Bavaria.

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