21-year-old man opens fire with rifle on campus in Spain

A 21-year-old young man was arrested on Wednesday in Spain after firing a dozen shots with a hunting rifle at a university in the Basque Country.

Fortunately, no one was injured in the shooting, local police said.

Shortly before 7 p.m. local time, a man armed with a shotgun entered the campus of the Faculty of Science and Technology in the town of Leioa.

"He fired a dozen or more times" on the facade of the faculty, according to a Basque police spokesperson.

"I don't want to hurt anyone"

"The man was arrested," added the spokesperson without specifying the identity of the suspect or if he was a university student.

"No injured have been identified", for his part underlined the Basque police on Twitter.

The police specified that an "important police device" had been deployed "to ensure the safety of all students, teachers and [other] staff".

According to the Spanish daily

, the author of the shooting declared to a cleaning lady: "I do not want to harm anyone, only at the university".

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