Student shoots three in Greek college, kills himself

A teenage student armed with two handguns, dozens of bullets and a knife opened fire in a vocational training college in Athens Friday, wounding three people before shooting himself in the head, Greek authorities said. The 19-year-old gunman died of his injuries after being taken to a hospital. He left a note accusing his fellow students of picking on him.
``He succumbed during the operation to save him, senior Health Ministry official Panayiotis Efstathiou said. Police said an 18-year-old electronics student at the western Athens state college was seriously injured and two men outside the college building were shot and lightly injured. All three were hospitalised.
Although there have been cases of stabbings at Greek schools, the shooting is unprecedented. ``Such incidents are foreign to the Greek educational system, said Deputy Education Minister Andreas Lykourentzos. Police identified the gunman as an immigrant from the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia. ``He left a note saying he couldnt take it any more, police spokesman Panayiotis Stathis told The Associated Press. ``It seems his motive was revenge.