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from Reuters
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02 Jul 2003 12:11:28 GMT
German teenager shoots self dead, wounds teacher
MUNICH, Germany, July 2 (Reuters) - A 16-year-old boy killed himself with a handgun in a German school after shooting a teacher who tried to wrestle the weapon away from him, police said on Wednesday.
The teenager took out the handgun during a biology class at his school in Coburg, south Germany, sending his teacher and fellow students running from the classroom in panic, police said.
A second teacher approached the student, trying to seize the gun, when the weapon fired off a shot which hit her in the leg.
The student then shot himself dead, police said.
The wounded teacher was treated in hospital, but no other injuries were reported. There were no details about the boy's possible motive.
Germany was shaken last year when a student shot and killed 16 pupils and teachers before killing himself at a school in the eastern city of Erfurt in the country's worst postwar shooting spree.
Germany tightened its strict gun control laws following the Erfurt shooting but there are still close to eight million legally held weapons in the country -- roughly one for every 10 people.