Student opens fire at German university, killing one

Police and firefighters secure the area at the premises of the Heidelberg university after a lone gunman wounded several in an attack in a lecture hall in the southwestern university town before shooting himself dead in Heidelberg, Germany, January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Tilman Blasshofer

BERLIN (Reuters) -An 18-year-old biology student opened fire in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in Germany on Monday, fatally wounding another student and injuring three others before shooting himself dead, officials said.

Mannheim police chief Siegfried Kollmar said the gunman had been found with 100 spare bullets in his backpack and it was not clear why he had stopped shooting, but officers were confident he had been acting alone.