Several wounded in a shooting in a German city

A lone gunman wounded several people at a lecture theater in the southwestern German city of Heidelberg on Monday, police said.

 

Police said in a brief statement that the perpetrator was dead, but didn’t give details of how that happened.

 

They had earlier asked people on Twitter to avoid the Neuenheimer Feld area of Heidelberg, where the city’s university campus is located.

 

The perpetrator is dead,” Mannheim police said in a statement. On Twitter, police added that officers had deployed to the university’s Neuenheimer Feld campus.