The Ansbach school attack occurred on 17 September 2009, at the Carolinum Gynmasium in Ansbach

Ansbach

Ansbach, originally Onolzbach, is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is situated southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the Main river. As of 2004, its population was 40,723.Ansbach...

, Germany

Germany

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. The attacker Georg R., a 19-year-old man whom the BBC

BBC

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 reports as a former student, entered the school that morning armed with petrol bombs and an axe

Axe

The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber; as a weapon; and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol...

.

At least nine people were injured, at least one of them seriously. A Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

 police spokesman stated that all the wounded are eight-graders. The attacker was apprehended by a police patrol ten minutes later, injured and hospitalized.

Carolinum

Gymnasium Carolinum (Ansbach)

The Gymnasium Carolinum in Ansbach, Germany, was founded by George the Pious, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach in Ansbach, the former Onolzbach, in 1528...

 is a school of some 600 students in grades 5-13, in Ansbach

Ansbach

Ansbach, originally Onolzbach, is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is situated southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the Main river. As of 2004, its population was 40,723.Ansbach...

, a Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

n town of some 40 thousand inhabitants.

See also

• List of school-related attacks
• School shooting
• Erfurt massacre
  Erfurt massacre
  The Erfurt massacre was a school massacre that occurred on April 26, 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany. The gunman, 19-year-old expelled student Robert Steinhäuser, shot and killed sixteen people; comprising 13 faculty members, 2 students, and one police officer, before committing...
  
  
• Winnenden school shooting
  Winnenden school shooting
  The Winnenden school shooting occurred on the morning of 11 March 2009 at a secondary school in Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg, in southwestern Germany, followed by a shootout at a car dealership in nearby Wendlingen. The shooting spree resulted in 16 deaths, including the suicide of the perpetrator,...
  
  
• Emsdetten school shooting
  Emsdetten school shooting
  On 20 November 2006, at about 9:30 AM local time, an 18 year old former student born 29 April 1988 graduate of 2005, entered the Geschwister Scholl School , firing several shots and setting off smoke grenades. He shot the school janitor and four students and wounded a teacher by throwing a smoke...