GERMANY: A former student who wounded an eight-year-old boy with a knife at a school in the east of the country may have intended to set the building on fire, police said today.

The 16-year-old suspect set himself alight after the knife attack in Bischofswerda, east of Dresden, on Wednesday. The flames were extinguished and he was arrested.

The police said there were “initial indications that the suspect possibly wanted to set fire to the school.”