The rampage at Virginia Tech in the United States on Monday that saw 33 killed has struck a chord with people in Erfurt, the site of Germany's worst school shooting.
"When I see and hear all the reports on the news about Virginia Tech, everything from five years ago comes flooding back," said Christiane Alt, the principal of Erfurt's Gutenberg Gymnasium, the school where 16 people were killed by a 19-year-old student who then took his own life.
Christian Drechsel, a pupil at the Erfurt school at the time of the shooting, said he can understand how the Virginia Tech students must be feeling.
