Several Wounded In German Lecture Hall Shooting, Gunman Dead: Police

A lone perpetrator injured several people in a lecture hall with a long gun, Mannheim police said in a statement.

A gunman injured several people in a shooting inside a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in western Germany on Monday, police said, adding that the perpetrator was now dead.

"A lone perpetrator injured several people in a lecture hall with a long gun. The perpetrator is dead," Mannheim police said in a statement. On Twitter, police added that officers had deployed to the university's Neuenheimer Feld campus.

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