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Monday, 29 April, 2002, 17:09 GMT 18:09 UK
Two dead in Bosnia school shooting
 
A teacher has been shot dead and another injured in an attack by a pupil at a school in eastern Bosnia.

Police said the 17-year-old male student then shot himself dead.

No motive has yet been established for the shooting at a secondary school in Vlasenica, in the Bosnian Serb part of the country.

It comes only days after a former pupil at a school in eastern Germany shot dead 16 teachers and pupils before killing himself.

But correspondents say there is no evidence of a link at this stage.

First of its kind

In Monday's incident, the Bosnian Serb student approached a history teacher who was standing outside the school and shot him in the head, a local police spokesman said.

The boy then walked into a classroom and shot and wounded a mathematics teacher.

She suffered gunshot wounds to her neck, but her life was not in danger.

The incident is believed to be the first of its kind in Bosnia.

 
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