The shooter committed suicide, local police said on Monday, without giving details of his identity or the reason for his act.
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The reasons for his action are unknown. A man with a “long gun” opened fire in an amphitheater of the University of Heidelberg (Germany), announced the police of Mannheim, Monday January 24. Four people were injured, some seriously, according to a police report (in German).
The shooter “later committed suicide”, said Stefan Wilhelm, spokesman for the Mannheim police. The police assumed there was a single perpetrator and therefore felt that there was no “no more dangerous situations”.
Investigators have not yet “not aware of a letter of claim”, while the police called on public opinion to avoid speculation.
The facts took place in Heidelberg, a city in southwestern Germany. The attacked university site notably hosts faculties of natural sciences, departments of the university hospital center and the botanical garden.
German firearms laws were tightened after two attacks on schools in 2002 and 2009. It is now one of the strictest in Europe, requiring in particular that anyone under the age of 25 pass a psychiatric examination before applying for a gun license.