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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany | Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:55am EST

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany (Reuters) - A 23-year-old man stabbed his former teacher to death with an outdoor knife at a vocational school in the southwestern German city of Ludwigshafen, German prosecutors said on Thursday.

The former student confessed to the attack, saying he was angry because the teacher had given him bad marks, prosecutor Lothar Liebig told a news conference.

The man, arrested by police and due in court on Friday, also attacked another teacher who was not hurt. He also fired several times at random with a replica pistol that fired only blanks in a different building at the school.

Germany has suffered several serious school shootings in recent years.

Last March a teenager went on the rampage in the southern town of Winnenden near Stuttgart, killing 15 people at his old school before shooting himself.

The country's worst school shooting was in April 2002, when a gunman killed 17 people, including himself, at a high school in the eastern city of Erfurt.

(Reporting by Franz-Norbert Piontek; writing by Madeline Chambers, editing by Tim Pearce)
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