Several people were injured in a shooting incident in a lecture hall of a university in the German city of Heidelberg on Monday afternoon. It is not known how many victims are involved and what their condition is. That reports the Police in a message on Twitter. The suspected gunman, who was armed with a rifle, is dead. How he died has not been disclosed.
The German authorities have cordoned off the area around the university and are calling on people via Twitter to stay away. Heidelberg is a town in western Germany, about an hour and a half drive from Stuttgart.
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