BANJA LUKA (Bosnia-Hercegovina), April 29: A 17-year-old pupil went on a shooting rampage at a school in the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska on Monday, killing one teacher before turning the gun on himself, police said.

The incident at the secondary school in the town of Vlasenica comes just three days after a former pupil shot dead 16 people, including 12 teachers, at a school in the German town of Erfurt.

Dragoslav Petkovic shot dead history teacher Stanimir Reljic, 53, in front of the school building before entering a classroom where he shot and injured a mathematics teacher, 51-year-old Saveta Mojsilovic, police told Bosnian Serb radio.

The teacher suffered gunshot wounds to the neck, but her life was not in danger, police said. The pupil then shot himself in the head and later died.

The Bosnian Serb education ministry said it was appalled by the incident and it urged police to get to the bottom of “this tragedy.”

The ministry “appeals to parents and teachers to use every means possible to prevent such incidents,” it said.—AFP