10 hurt in firebomb attack on school: German police

A 19-year-old man injured 10 people,three seriously,after throwing Molotov cocktails in a school in Germany,before being overpowered by police.

A 19-year-old man injured 10 people,three seriously,after throwing Molotov cocktails in a school in Germany on Thursday,before being overpowered by police,authorities said.

“The attacker has been arrested,is injured and is on the way to hospital,” a spokesman for Nuremberg police,Peter Grimm,told rolling news channel N24.

The incident took place at a secondary school of 600-700 pupils in Ansbach near Nuremberg in southern Germany. The injured included both pupils and teachers and the suspected attacker attended the same school,Grimm said.

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Authorities are on high alert in Germany after a school shooting in the town of Winnenden in March,when 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer shot dead 15 people before dying in a shoot-out with police.

There have been several warnings of copycat shootings since,with armed police evacuating schools on several occasions.

In May,a 16-year-old girl was arrested after arriving at a school wearing a mask and armed with several knives,an air gun and a rucksack full of bottles of flammable liquid.

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