Teen kills fellow student, teacher at Slovak school
Eighteen-year-old attacks during classes when the school was full of teachers and students.
Eighteen-year-old attacks during classes when the school was full of teachers and students.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AFP) — A teen killed a fellow student and a teacher in a knife attack at a secondary school in northeastern Slovakia on Thursday and wounded another student.
The 18-year-old was detained shortly after the crime, police said.
“Two women aged 18 and 51 suffered fatal injuries,” Danka Capakova from Slovakia’s emergency service told Agence France-Presse.
Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said another student, also 18, was in hospital in a “serious but stable” condition.
He said the dead teacher was a deputy headmistress and declined to elaborate on the attacker’s motive.
The stabbings happened in the town of Spisska Stara Ves near the border with Poland, around 280 kilometers northeast of the capital Bratislava.
Slovak police chief Lubomir Solak said the police received a call at 1149 GMT and the first police car arrived three minutes after that.
The emergency service “sent several ambulance crews to the Spisska Stara Ves grammar school before 13:00 today,” said Capakova.
She added doctors had also treated a 51-year-old man and a 62-year-old woman at the site “because of acute stress reaction.”
Solak said several people suffered “very light injuries” and that the attack occurred during classes when the school was full of teachers and students.
Police identified the attacker as an 18-year-old student named “S.S.” and asked the public for help as he escaped after the attack.
The attacker was detained “in a forest outside the territory of the town” at 1256 GMT, Solak said at a press conference.
Police also published a photo showing the attacker with cropped blond hair.
Estok said the student had “excellent results” at school.
The Markiza private TV station said the student had moved to the school from another one in the nearby town of Kezmarok after being expelled for threatening to attack fellow students.
