A 16-year-old boy walked into his school in southern Germany today and shot his female teacher in the leg before killing himself.
The incident happened at about 9.00 a.m. (0800 BST) at a school in Coburg, 150 miles south-west of Berlin.
Students fled the school as word of the shooting spread, but no one else was hurt.
"We know nothing yet about the motives," a police spokeswoman said. "The teacher is getting medical attention."
A German radio station said the boy had been playing around with two handguns in the classroom at the secondary school in the Bavarian town.
Shots were fired when the teacher tried to confiscate the guns, Radio Bayerische Rundfunk reported.
Germany was shaken last year when a student shot dead 16 pupils and teachers before killing himself at a school in the eastern town of Erfurt.
AP