Thursday, March 15, 2012

2 dead in Albanian school shooting

An apparently jealous teenager stormed into an Albanian high school class room Tuesday, fatally shooting a young woman he had met on Facebook and then committing suicide, police and media said.

Police said 19-year-old Endrit Llambaj entered the classroom in the southern town of Elbasan with a handgun and ordered all the students out except 18-year-old Gerta Baja. Three shots were then fired, and Baja was found dead at her desk.

The gunman ran away before fatally shooting himself a few hundred yards (meters) away when he realized police were chasing him.

Elbasan police spokeswoman Valbona Begu said Llambaj was probably motivated by jealousy.

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