Teen, 16, arrested over Germany school attack

At least two girls have been seriously wounded and a 16-year-old suspect arrested after an attack at a secondary school in the southern German state of Bavaria on Wednesday.

The perpetrator appeared to have deliberately targeted the Welfen grammar school in the town of Schongau in a suspected “rampage”, a police spokeswoman said.

She was unable to confirm press reports according to which the assailant used a knife in the attack.

Local police said on their social media account that “a suspected perpetrator has been arrested”, later adding that this was a “16-year-old boy”.

Initially the police had spoken of “several” injured and later on Wednesday afternoon said that “according to current information two girls have been seriously injured”.

They said that the “girls’ lives are not in danger” and did not specify whether they were students at the school.