“As part of the immediate investigation, there were indications that other students might have injured the twelve-year-old student,” said police spokesperson Frank Piontek to the General Anzeiger. He said the circumstances as to how and why it came to such serious injuries were still unexplained. Because of this, a homicide division and prosecutors in Bonn have taken over the investigation as of Friday morning.

Doctors at the Euskirchen hospital contacted police at around 6 p.m. Thursday evening because the youth had been brought there with serious injuries in the afternoon. Police say a teacher had notified an emergency physician at around 2:30 p.m. because the student complained of severe pain and was dazed. According to General Anzeiger information, he is a student at the Gesamtschule (a high school) in Euskirchen.

After initially being brought to the hospital in Euskirchen, he was flown in a helicopter to a hospital in Cologne. Doctors there say his condition is life-threatening. Orig. text: Mario Quadt