One dead in Hungarian university shootout
A student at the Scientific University of Pecs in southern Hungary opened fire on his classmates yesterday, killing one person and wounding three, the university said.
"The students at the biophysics research institute were in a pharmacy class when one of their colleagues began shooting," university spokesman Zoltan Gyorffy said.
A female student was killed in the shooting, which took place at 11:30 am (1030 GMT). Two students and a cleaning lady were wounded, two of them critically, Gyorffy added.
The 23-year-old gunman was detained by the police, but his motives were still unclear.
He was caught on the seventh floor of another university building, Gyorffy said.
Education Minister Istvan Hiller immediately traveled to the university, which had been sealed off by the police.
Bama, an online local newspaper, quoted witnesses as saying that the shooter "did not get along with the other students and had been behaving strangely for days."
The girl who was killed was a first-year pharmacy student, emergency services spokeswoman Cecilia Nemeth told the newspaper. She was hit by three bullets in the chest and died on the spot, Nemeth said.
The three others were taken to hospital, she added.
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