FRANKFURT, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Two people were killed at a school in the town of Gosen-Neu Zittau near Berlin and a suspect has been detained, local newspaper Maerkische Allgemeine reported on Thursday.
The paper said in its online edition that one of the victims is an 18-year-old woman who attended the school and that the suspected perpetrator is believed to be her 19-year-old former boyfriend. A 30-year-old man was killed while trying to stop the attack, the report said.
Separately, Berliner Zeitung reported that a further two people were injured.
Local police said in a statement on X that one suspect had been detained and that officers were securing a crime scene.
Police could not immediately be reached for comment by phone and did not immediately reply to an emailed request for comment.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger, editing by Friederike Heine)
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