German police said several people had been wounded and a suspect arrested in an attack at a secondary school in the southern German state of Bavaria on July 8.

“A suspected perpetrator has been arrested,” local police said in an X post. “The number of people involved and the severity of the injuries are currently being clarified.”

Police said people should continue to avoid the area following the incident at the Welfen grammar school in Schongau, a town just north of the Alps.

“A major police operation is under way,” they had warned in an earlier post. “We are on site with numerous forces.”

Serious violence at schools is rare but not unknown in Germany.

In 2025, a 17-year-old seriously wounded a 45-year-old teacher at a vocational college in the western city of Essen and was shot by police before his arrest.

In 2002, a 19-year-old gunman killed 16 people, including 12 teachers and two pupils, at a school in the eastern city of Erfurt. AFP

Several wounded in school attack in Germany’s Bavaria; suspect arrested