One student killed, 3 injured in university shooting

Police say one woman was killed and three others injured after an 18-year-old man opened fire on students in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany on Monday 24 January, write Stephanie Halasz, Nina Avramova and Eliza Mackintosh for CNN.

The lone gunman, who was a student at the university, entered an auditorium filled with 30 people at around 12.24pm local time according to CNN’s German affiliate n-tv. After firing several shots, he fled the auditorium and then turned a gun on himself, police said. At 12.51pm the alleged perpetrator was found dead by police. He had two rifles with him.

Siegfried Kollmar, the chief of police of Mannheim, a nearby city, said that four women had been wounded in the shooting. A 23-year-old female German student who was shot in the head died in the hospital hours later, and three other young German women sustained injuries in the attack, authorities said.
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