“An attacker, acting alone, injured several people in an auditorium with a long weapon. The attacker died,” Mannheim police said in a statement, without specifying whether he was killed by police.
According to information from the public broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR), the university asked its students by mail not to go to the campus in the Neuenheimer Feld neighborhood for the time being.
Although “there is no longer an imminent threat,” according to SWR.
According to information from the Police, the author of the attack was a student, and it is not assumed that he had religious motives, although this last fact has not yet been confirmed. At this time the danger has passed, and efforts are being made to help the injured, but the place is cordoned off and there is a strong police presence there, DW reported.
The German law on the carrying of firearms became more severe in Germany after two attacks on schools in the city of Erfurt, in the east of the country, in April 2002, and in the city of Winnenden (southwest), in March 2009.
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