Teen Kills Classmate, Trainer In Knife Assault At Slovakia Faculty

Bratislava:
A teen killed a fellow pupil and a instructor in a knife assault at a secondary faculty in northeastern Slovakia on Thursday and wounded a 3rd lady.
The 18-year-old was detained shortly after the crime, police mentioned.
“Two girls aged 18 and 51 suffered deadly accidents,” Danka Capakova from Slovakia’s emergency service advised AFP.
“An 18-year-old lady with reasonable accidents was transported to hospital,” she added.
Police mentioned earlier on Fb {that a} feminine instructor 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 faculty earlier than 13:00 (1200 GMT) immediately”, mentioned Capakova.
Capakova mentioned medical doctors had additionally handled a 51-year-old man and a 62-year-old lady on the web site “due to acute stress response”.
Police recognized the attacker as 18-year-old pupil “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 personal TV station mentioned the scholar 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.
‘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 way in which to the crime scene.
Calling the assault “an actual tragedy”, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini mentioned: “no drawback on this planet will be solved with a knife or one other weapon”.
The Scholar Council of Secondary Faculties mentioned 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 instructor 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 pupil, 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 in Belgrade during which 10 individuals had been killed.
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