Sacked German kills two

A young man who had just been sacked returned to the company near Munich today and shot dead two former work colleagues.

After killing the general manager and the foremen in the interior design shop, the 20-year-old fled and hid in a school where he fired wildly, wounding the headteacher, police said.

The shooting spree began at the shop in the Bavarian town of Eching. The gunman then drove to the nearby town of Freising and opened fire in the school.

The gunman escaped from the school and is being chased by police, a spokesman said.