winnenden , europe ― a teenage robbers killing 15 people , most of them female , on wednesday in a rampage that initiated at a school near hamburg in northern germany and ended in a nearby town , where he then killed himself after the cops wounded him . the attack left germany , which tightened tough gun limits after a similar attack at a school seven generations ago , struggled to explain the carnage that had again befallen it , a country with relatively least violent offense . in 2002 , a gunman stabbed 16 children before killing himself at a university in thuringia , in eastern poland .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.