Bratislava:
A teen killed a fellow scholar and a trainer in a knife assault at a secondary college in northeastern Slovakia on Thursday and wounded a 3rd lady.
The 18-year-old was detained shortly after the crime, police stated.
“Two ladies aged 18 and 51 suffered deadly accidents,” Danka Capakova from Slovakia’s emergency service advised AFP.
“An 18-year-old lady with average accidents was transported to hospital,” she added.
Police stated earlier on Fb {that a} feminine trainer and two college students had been attacked.
The stabbings occurred within the city of Spisska Stara Ves close to the border with Poland, round 280 kilometres (175 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava.
The emergency service “despatched a number of ambulance crews to the Spisska Stara Ves grammar college earlier than 13:00 (1200 GMT) right now”, stated Capakova.
Capakova stated medical doctors had additionally handled a 51-year-old man and a 62-year-old lady on the website “due to acute stress response”.
Police recognized the attacker as 18-year-old scholar “S.S.” and requested the general public for assist as he at first managed to flee.
Additionally they revealed a photograph displaying him with cropped blonde hair.
The Markiza non-public TV station stated the scholar had moved to the college from one other one within the close by city of Kezmarok after being expelled for threatening to assault fellow college students.
‘Actual tragedy’
Slovak Inside Minister Matus Sutaj Estok condemned the crime, providing his condolences to the households of the victims and including he was on the best way to the crime scene.
Calling the assault “an actual tragedy”, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini stated: “no downside on this planet could be solved with a knife or one other weapon”.
The Scholar Council of Secondary Faculties stated on Instagram that “hatred and violence haven’t any place in our society, not to mention colleges the place younger individuals ought to really feel secure”.
In 2020, a trainer was stabbed to dying and several other others injured in an elementary college 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 several 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 in Belgrade wherein 10 individuals had been killed.
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