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An assassin killed 10 people during an amok run at a high school in Winneden in Baden-Württemberg. Baden Wuerttemberg's minister of interior Heribert Rech stated this. Nine pupils became victim according to police. The tenth victim was killed during the escape of the culprit. Ten people were heavily injured.
us.yahoo:Police hunt for gunman who killed 10 in German school shooting
Spiegel.de
The father of the culprit was a reknown businessman in the city of Winneden with 27000 citizens. He had an arms storage containing 18 weapons. Meanwhile the house of the parents was stormed by police. The mother is cooperating with police.
Helicopters hunt for the suspect. Mobile and Special squads have been deployed.
events:
-rampage at school in Winneden, 9 dead
-culprit escapes, shoots 1 next to psychiatric asylum
-hijacks car
-flees to Wendlingen (40 km off)
-rampage in a shopping mall
-escapes shopping mall
-deadly shoot out next to mail-facility (letter-coordination) of German Post
spiegel.de
cnn
WINNENDEN, Germany (CNN) -- A gunman dressed in military gear killed 16 people Wednesday in a shooting spree in Germany before he was shot dead by police, police spokesman Rainer Kloeller told CNN.
Tim Kretschmer, 17, began his rampage at a school where he used to be a student in Winnenden, a small town about 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Stuttgart, said KIoeller, of the police in the nearby town of Waiblingen.
"The suspect broke into the school. He went into the classroom and shot wildly around himself and left the building and fled on foot," Hans Ulrich Stuiber, another police spokesman, said.
Three teachers and 10 students were killed at the Albertville-Realschule Winnenden school, Kloeller said. The shooting, which began around 9:45 a.m. (4:45 a.m. EDT), lasted about two minutes, police said. Kretschmer fired shots into three classrooms, Kloeller said.
On his way out of the school, the gunman killed a person who was working in a hospital nearby, then hijacked a car, taking the driver hostage. 
More about the gunman's deadly route »
He drove to the nearby town of Wendlingen, where he let the driver go, Kloeller said. The driver alerted the police.
Kretschmer was spotted by police in Wendlingen at around 12:20 p.m. (7:20 a.m. EDT) and shot two of them, injuring them. He then killed two more people before being killed himself in a shootout with police, authorities said
Kretschmer was on the loose for three and a half hours after the incident began, police said. Watch more about the shootings »
Police raided his parents' home later and found they had a sizable collection of guns, at least one of which was used in the killings, authorities said. German gun laws are fairly restrictive and require owners to control access to them. Do you think the gun control issue is taken seriously enough?
At least seven people were injured in the shootings -- five people in Winnenden and two police officers in Wendlingen -- police spokeswoman Renate Roesch added. She was unable to say how serious the injuries were.
Six teenagers from the from the school shooting were transported to the Waiblingen hospital with undisclosed injuries.
One of those patients has already been released from the hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman. The families of the dead have been informed and are receiving counseling, Roesch said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to make a statement about the incident later in the day, her office said.
About 1,000 students attend the school where the killings began.Authorities sealed off the town of Winnenden and launched an intense manhunt for the gunman after the school shootings. Police said the man was about 1.80m (5'11") and heavily armed.
"It is a small town, an idyllic town," said Frank Nipkau, the editor in chief of Winnenden Zeitung newspaper. "The town people are devastated and they can't understand why this is happening in this town."
Security at German schools has been an issue in the past.
In November 2006, an 18-year-old former student strapped explosives to his body and went on a rampage at a middle school in western Germany, shooting and wounding six people -- most of them students -- before killing himself.
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