No injuries reported in incident at school in Hamburg

Society & Culture November 08, 2023, 18:55

According to the media, the attackers escaped in an unknown direction

BERLIN, November 8. /TASS/. No one was injured in an incident at a school in Hamburg's Blankenese district where two students threatened a female teacher, the daily Hamburger Morgenpost quotes a local police official as saying.

As of this moment, there are no reported casualties. Police are through with searching the school grounds.

Earlier, it was reported that two male attackers threatened a teacher in a school in Hamburg. The Bild newspaper says the assailants were 12 and 16 years of age. One of them had a handgun. The daily says the attackers apparently escaped in an unknown direction. Authorities are searching for them. It was not immediately clear whether they were students of that school.

There were about 1,000 students in the building at the moment of the incident. Two classes have already been evacuated. Blankenese, located on the Elbe, is considered a safe neighborhood.

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