In South-West Germany’s Offenburg, a 15-year-old boy fatally shot his classmate in the head at a school, succumbing to serious injuries later in the hospital. In a separate incident on the previous day in Hamburg, police intervened at a school due to reports of armed youths threatening a teacher. The country faced a notorious school shooting in March 2009 when a 17-year-old student in Winnenden, West Germany, shot and killed 15 people before taking his own life.