Hoyerswerda: Amokdrohung in vocational school center

Since noon, the Saxon police in Hoyerswerda in large-scale operation. The local vocational school center was threatened with rampage, regional media report. 900 students were evacuated from the vocational school center and housed in a neighboring bowling center.

At 11:30 clock had received an emergency call to the police, a police spokeswoman told the MDR Saxony. One had found a note in the school, on which a killing spree had been announced. As a result, the school's internal amokalarm had been triggered. According to MDR, police are currently searching the school. There should be no casualties.

The students barricaded themselves in their classrooms and the police locked the perimeter of the vocational school center. Crisis intervention teams are in action. The police are investigating the threat of a criminal offense.