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Greek school gunman wounds three | Greek school gunman wounds three |
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A Greek student shot and injured a fellow student and two passers-by before turning the gun on himself, police say. | |
Both the 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 20, 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 as he mounted the stairs he fired three shots at a 19-year-old student heading towards him, hitting him in the abdomen. | |
The gunman then turned to leave the school and was confronted by two workers from a nearby factory, witnesses said. | |
The man 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 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." | "The victim who is seriously injured is 18 or 19 years old. The other two are about 30 and are not seriously hurt." |
The gunman is said to have been studying car electronics at the college, which offers vocational training for the unemployed. | |
He has been described as an introvert with few friends who rarely spoke to anyone, our correspondent in Athens says. |