Two 13-year-old girls were seriously wounded in an attack at a secondary school in Schongau, Upper Bavaria, on Wednesday. A 16-year-old boy was arrested near the Welfen-Gymnasium shortly after the incident, which police described as a suspected rampage.

Bavarian police said the suspect was carrying a knife and a firearm when he was detained. The two victims, both pupils at the school, sustained stab wounds and were taken to hospital; authorities said their injuries were not life-threatening. The firearm was not discharged, according to police statements cited by German media. The suspect is believed to have acted alone, and no other perpetrators are being sought.

It remains unclear whether the 16-year-old was a current or former student at the school. Bavaria’s interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, told public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk that the suspect had previously received psychiatric treatment, though police have not officially confirmed this. Initial reports mentioned a single-digit number of injured, but police later clarified that only the two girls suffered physical wounds; others may have been treated for shock. The exact location of the stabbings on the school grounds has not been disclosed.

School attacks are rare in Germany, but the country has experienced several high-profile cases in recent decades, including a shooting in Erfurt in 2002 that left 16 dead and a massacre in Winnenden in 2009 that killed 15. Last year, a teacher was seriously wounded in a jihadist-motivated knife attack at a vocational college in Essen.

A large-scale police operation involving six helicopters and hundreds of officers secured the area, and a contact point for families was established at the local fire station. The investigation into the motive and circumstances is ongoing, and authorities have urged the public to avoid the vicinity of the school.