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German teenager killed in scuffle with schoolmate

By REUTERS
January 24, 2018

BERLIN: Police in Germany arrested a suspect after a student killed his schoolmate, police said on Tuesday. Die Welt newspaper said a student was stabbed during a scuffle. It said the two students were aged 14 and 15. Police did not say if a weapon had been used.

The school in the town of Luenen in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia was evacuated. In 2009, a 17-year-old gunman killed 15 people in southwest Germany in a shooting spree that started at his former school.

The suspect, who has German and Kazakh citizenship, was arrested shortly after the incident. Police said their investigations into the circumstances of the killing are ongoing but said rumors on social media that the attack was directed at a person who wasn’t the victim couldn’t be confirmed.