- Five people were injured in the incident at Wilhelm Dörpfeld High School in Wuppertal’s Elberfeld district on Thursday.
- The suspect was reportedly injured and arrested in connection with the incident.
- Police said a large number of officers were dispatched to the scene.
Five people were injured and one suspect was arrested in an incident at a school in the western German city of Wuppertal on Thursday, police said.
The incident occurred at Wilhelm Dörpfeld High School in the city’s Elberfeld district.
Police said there were no shots fired in the incident, but did not provide further information, according to German news agency dpa.
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The Bild newspaper did not identify sources, but said it was a knife attack.
Police and an ambulance are seen at the Wilhelm Dörpfeld School in Wuppertal, Germany, on February 22, 2024. Police said five people were injured and one suspect was arrested in the incident at the school. (Roberto Pfeil/DPA, via AP)
Police said a large number of officers were dispatched to the scene. The suspect was reportedly injured.
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Wuppertal is a city of approximately 350,000 people near Düsseldorf and Cologne.
