World News | 5 People Injured in School Incident in Germany; Suspect Arrested

Berlin, Feb 22 (AP) Five people were injured in an incident on Thursday at a school in the western German city of Wuppertal and a suspect was arrested, police said.

The incident took place at the Wilhelm Dörpfeld high school in the city's Elberfeld district.

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Police said there was no shooting in the incident, German news agency dpa reported, but gave no further information.

The Bild newspaper, which didn't name sources, said it was a knife attack.

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Police said they deployed large numbers of officers to the scene. They said the suspect was injured.

Wuppertal is a city of some 350,000 people near Duesseldorf and Cologne. (AP)

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