Two mechanics were praised last night after overpowering and capturing a gunman who had earlier shot dead two people in northern Bavaria.

A teenager who stormed his school armed with an axe, knives and Molotov cocktails in an attack that injured nine students and a teacher has awoken from a medically induced coma, German prosecutors said today.

AN 18-year-old who stormed his school armed with an axe, knives and Molotov cocktails in an attack that injured nine people had marked the date in his calendar with the words “apocalypse today”, German prosecutors said yesterday.

AN 18-YEAR-OLD armed with an axe, knives and Molotov cocktails attacked his high school in southern Germany yesterday, injuring eight pupils and a teacher before police shot and arrested him, authorities said.

An 18-year-old pupil armed with an axe and knives attacked his school with petrol bombs in Germany today wounding nine classmates before he was shot and arrested.