Police in Germany Arrest 17-Year-Old Bloodied Attacker After Stabbing 5 Students at Wuppertal School

Five people were stabbed at a school in the Western German city of Wuppertal today in an attack. The suspect has been arrested, police said, according to Bild.

The incident took place at the Wilhelm Dörpfeld High School in the city's Elberfeld district. Police said there were no shots fired during the incident, German news agency dpa reported, but did not provide further information. Bild newspaper, which did not cite sources, reported that it was a knife attack.

Police said they had sent a large number of officers to the scene. They said the suspect was injured. The bloodied 17-year-old attacker was found and detained on the 4th floor of the school. 

According to BILD, the teenager attacked his classmates on Thursday morning. At least four of them were injured. It is not yet clear how serious the situation is. 

BILD has learnt that the operational department is currently classifying the knife attack as a robbery.

According to German media, the teacher said that the students were attacked with a knife and scissors, BBC reports.

It is also said that the teenagers of Wilhelm-Derpfeld High School barricaded themselves in their classrooms.

The suspect was among the wounded and is reported to be a student.

Details of the attack are unknown, but police said they launched a major operation shortly before 10:00 (0900 GMT) on Thursday.

The school was then evacuated and the roads around it closed.

"Students were injured," police said in a social media post, adding later that the school had been cleared, and all students were safe and being looked after.

Police spokesman Stefan Weyand told the Westdeutsche newspaper that the students were "understandably shaken".

Wuppertal is a city of about 350,000 people located near Düsseldorf and Cologne.