A large police force is on site at a school in Wachtberg near Bonn. A child is said to be in possession of a knife at school. There had previously been a knife attack in a neighboring refugee accommodation.

According to investigators, there had been a knife attack in a neighboring accommodation home on Wednesday. One person was injured and a possible suspect has already been arrested. At the same time, however, the school shooting alarm was also triggered, whereupon the officers searched the school, a police spokesman said. The background was initially unclear.

According to information from the “General-Anzeiger Bonn”, the police were informed that there was a child in possession of a knife at the Hans Dietrich Genscher School. It is said to have threatened to use this. Heavily armed police officers, a helicopter and a drone are on site. The students from the neighboring elementary school are also still in their classrooms.