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A 17-year-old student has been arrested in North Rhine-Westphalia on suspicion of having killed his vocational school teacher.
As the police and prosecutors announced, the suspect is said to have visited the 55-year-old in the school building in Ibbenbüren in the afternoon.
At that time, the teacher was alone in a classroom.
There the young man is said to have attacked and killed the teacher with a knife.
The investigations into the background of the fact are at the very beginning.
The suspect was arrested without resistance
According to the information, the student then dialed the emergency number and was arrested by the police without resistance.
A homicide commission from the Münster police took over the investigation.
A larger police force had arrived at the vocational college on Tuesday.
In addition to several patrol cars, a rescue helicopter, an ambulance and an emergency chaplain also arrived.
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