A lone gunman is dead after injuring several people inside a lecture hall at Heidelberg University, German police have said.
They
said the gunman was in possession of a "long gun", and that a large
operation including emergency services was under way at the university's
campus in Neuenheimer Feld.
It is not yet clear how many people have been injured, or how badly.
Heidelberg is a university town in the southwest of Germany.
Police have asked people to avoid the area so rescue workers and emergency services are able to move around freely.
Germany has been hit in recent years by a spate of attacks, mostly carried out by jihadists or far-right militants.
The country has some of the strictest gun laws in Europe, and school shootings are rare.
German
newspaper Bild reported that the shooter was a student at the
university, and had opened fire in the lecture hall before turning the
gun on himself.
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