Girl, 16, shot dead at Rotterdam school; man, 31, arrested
A 16-year-old girl has been shot dead in the bike sheds at the back of her college in the west of Rotterdam.
The girl was a student at the city’s Design College and was killed at around 1pm, police said.
A 31-year-old man was arrested several kilometres away. The two were said by fellow students to have been having a relationship.
Several pupils witnessed the shooting and are being interviewed by police. ‘They had a relationship but it was not going well,’ one pupil said. ‘She had blocked him on social media and had been hassled by him before. Her girlfriends had reported it to teachers.’
Another witness told the AD he had heard seven or eight shots and seen the victim lying on the ground.
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