Former student kills teacher in revenge at German school
12:19, 19 February 2010
BERLIN. February 19. KAZINFORM A teacher at a vocational school in the western German city of Ludwigshafen was killed on Thursday by a 23-year-old former student who said he hated the victim for bad notes he got at school; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The incident occurred at about 10:00 a.m. local time. Investigators told a press conference that the attacker, armed with a knife and an alarm gun, had apparently engaged in a violent fight with the 58-year-old teacher and stabbed him with the knife.
The victim, found still alive when police came, did not survive the wound and died on the scene.
The attacker fired the alarm gun several times during his flight in the school building but was later overwhelmed by the police.
According to investigators, the attacker said he felt great anger at the teacher from whom he had a lot of bad notes at school; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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