nytimes.com - 3/11/2009
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A teenage attacker who opened fire at his former school near Stuttgart was later killed by the police. >
news.bbc.co.uk - 3/11/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Fifteen people have been killed by a teenage
gunman who went on a rampage in south-west Germany,...
officials say. Among the dead were nine pupils, eight of them girls, and three teachers at the Albertville secondary school in the town of Winnenden, ...
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BBC NEWS | Europe | German school gunman 'kills 15'
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