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| Greek school gunman wounds three | |
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| A Greek student has shot and injured a fellow student and two passers-by before turning the gun on himself, police say. | |
| Both the teenage gunman and the other student were said to be in a serious condition, while the two passers-by escaped with light injuries. | Both the teenage gunman and the other student were said to be in a serious condition, while the two passers-by escaped with light injuries. |
| The shooting happened at a vocational college in a poor district of Athens. | The shooting happened at a vocational college in a poor district of Athens. |
| School shootings are rare in Greece and the incident has stunned Greeks, the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says. | School shootings are rare in Greece and the incident has stunned Greeks, the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says. |
| The student, believed to be aged around 19, walked into the college on Friday morning with two pistols, witnesses told Greek television. | |
| He was said to have been heading for the classrooms, but shot a student who passed him on the staircase. | |
| The gunman then turned to leave the school and was confronted by two older men at the gates, witnesses said. | |
| The teenager shot at the two men before running across the road and shooting himself in the head. | |
| "The gunman is in very serious condition with a gunshot wound to the head ... he's about to receive surgery," senior health ministry official Panayiotis Efstathiou told the Associated Press news agency. | |
| "The victim who is seriously injured is 18 or 19 years old. The other two are about 30 and are not seriously hurt." | |
| Our correspondent in Athens said it was not clear if the gunman was a student at the college, which offers vocational training for the unemployed. |