The perpetrator, described as a younger man, is dead, a police spokesman instructed CNN.
Police mentioned the lone gunman started capturing whereas a lecture was happening, earlier than working exterior.
A police spokesperson instructed Reuters they consider he killed himself.
One of these shot within the incident was critically injured, based on CNN’s German affiliate n-tv.
At this stage, officers can not decide a motive for the incident within the Neuenheimer Feld space of town, the police spokesman instructed CNN.
A big-scale police operation is underway: “Police and emergency services are on the scene,” Mannheim Police mentioned in a tweet.
Heidelberg University is Germany’s oldest, according to its website.
