The picture of the teenage killer from Germany stares out from many of the front pages.
A teenage gunman who murdered 15 people yesterday in one of the world's worst high school massacres appeared specifically to have targeted girls. says the Telegraph
The Guardian adds that
the 17-year-old – named locally as Tim Kretschmer – strode into the Albertville secondary school near Stuttgart shortly after 9.30am and shot dead nine pupils, three teachers and one passer-by. He then embarked on a two-hour attempted getaway that culminated in a shoot-out with police. Two men, caught in the crossfire, suffered fatal injuries. Police said Kretschmer then shot himself.
It leads with more on the Northern Ireland crisis reporting that security forces on both sides of the Irish border were hunting last night for a dissident republican bomb, after intelligence reports the Real IRA has smuggled a large device into Northern Ireland from the south,
According to the Times,
The Taleban commander responsible for increasingly sophisticated bomb attacks on British soldiers in Afghanistan is a former detainee of Guantánamo Bay released from prison in Kabul last year by Hamid Karzai’s Government
Whilst the Mail follows up yesterday's story by reporting that Anjem Choudary taunted the grieving families of three Royal Anglian Regiment members killed in a 'friendly fire' incident.
The Independent also looks to an old story as it tells us that Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, has been told he will spend the next 20 years in jail after the country's highest court ruled against him – without even hearing his defence.
According to the Telegraph,
Patients face a significant increase in waiting times for operations because "insane" European rules mean doctors’ hours will be cut so much they will not be able to cope, surgeons said.
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