Several people were injured in an attack by a man with a 'long gun' at a university lecture hall in southwestern Germany on Monday, local police said, adding that the assailant had died .
The facts took place on the campus of the University of Heidelberg.
“An individual injured several people in an amphitheater with a long weapon.
The author himself is dead,” Mannheim police said in a statement.
According to German media, he turned the gun on himself.
More information to follow.