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.

A PAIR of disaffected teenagers inspired by the Columbine school massacre planned a copycat killing spree in Britain, a court heard yesterday.

A gunman opened fire in a court in Bavaria today killing a woman and injuring several other people before shooting himself.

Germany’s chancellor called today for greater government supervision of gun owners after a school shooting last week that killed 15 people.

The psychological profile of a teenager who went on a shooting spree at his former school and killed 15 people began to take shape, as German investigators described a withdrawn young man from an intact family who broke off psychiatric treatment for depression.

The German teenager who shot dead 15 people in a school massacre boasted about what he was going to do the night before in an internet chatroom, police said today.

A 17-year-old gunned down students at his former high school – some of whom died with their pencils still in hand – in a spree that ended with 15 dead before he took his own life, German authorities said.

A teenage gunman in combat clothes ran amok at a German school today killing 15 people, nine of them pupils, before apparently shooting himself.

A teenage gunman shot dead 15 pupils, staff and bystanders at a German school before apparently turning his pistol on himself today.

At least 10 people, most of them pupils, were shot dead at their school in Germany today by an attacker wearing combat gear.