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A 17-year-old has been arrested after five students were wounded in an apparent knife attack at a school in the western German city of Wuppertal.<\/p>\n
A female teacher said the pupils were attacked with a knife and a pair of scissors, German media reported.<\/p>\n
Teenagers at the Wilhelm-D\u00f6rpfeld secondary school are said to have barricaded themselves in their classrooms.<\/p>\n
The suspect was among those wounded and reports say he is also a student.<\/p>\n
Details of the attack are unclear but police said they launched a major operation shortly before 10:00 (09:00 GMT) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The school was then evacuated and roads around it were closed off.<\/p>\n
“Students have been injured,” police said in a statement on social media, adding later that the school had been cleared and all the students were safe and being looked after.<\/p>\n
Police spokesman Stefan Weiand told the Westdeutsche newspaper that the students were “understandably shaken”.<\/p>\n
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