A youngster killed a fellow scholar and a trainer with a knife and injured one other classmate at a highschool in northeastern Slovakia on Thursday, authorities reported.
The 18-year-old was detained shortly after the crime, police stated.
“Two women aged 18 and 51 suffered fatal injuries,” Danka Capakova from Slovakia’s emergency service advised Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok stated one other scholar, additionally 18, was in hospital in a “serious but stable” situation.
He stated the useless trainer was a deputy headmistress and declined to elaborate on the attacker’s motive.
The stabbings occurred within the city of Spisska Stara Ves close to the border with Poland, round 280 kilometers (175 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava.
Slovak police chief Lubomir Solak stated the police acquired a name at 1149 GMT and the primary police automotive arrived three minutes after that.
The emergency service “sent several ambulance crews to the Spisska Stara Ves grammar school before 13:00 (1200 GMT) today,” stated Capakova.
She added docs had additionally handled a 51-year-old man and a 62-year-old lady on the website “because of acute stress reaction.”
Solak stated a number of individuals suffered “very light injuries” and that the assault occurred throughout lessons when the varsity was stuffed with lecturers and college students.
Police recognized the attacker as an 18-year-old scholar named “S.S.” and requested the general public for assist as he escaped after the assault.
The attacker was detained “in a forest outside the territory of the town” at 1256 GMT, Solak stated at a press convention.
Police additionally printed a photograph displaying the attacker with cropped blond hair.
‘Real tragedy’
Sutaj Estok stated the coed had “excellent results” at college.
The Markiza non-public TV station stated the coed had moved to the varsity from one other one within the close by city of Kezmarok after being expelled for threatening to assault fellow college students.
Calling the assault “a real tragedy,” Slovak President Peter Pellegrini stated: “No problem in the world can be solved with a knife or another weapon.”
The Student Council of Secondary Schools stated on Instagram that “hatred and violence have no place in our society, let alone schools where young people should feel safe.”
In 2020, a trainer was stabbed to dying and a number of other others injured in an elementary faculty in central Slovakia, the primary violent assault in a college within the nation.
Officers responding to the incident killed the assailant, a 22-year-old male former scholar, as he tried to flee.
Elsewhere in Europe, in December 2024, a seven-year-old pupil was killed and a number of other others wounded in an unprecedented stabbing assault at a college within the Croatian capital Zagreb.
In 2023, Serbia was rocked by back-to-back mass shootings, together with a bloodbath at a college within the capital of Belgrade by which 10 individuals had been killed.
Source: www.dailysabah.com