A pupil killed not less than two individuals and severely wounded one other in a knife assault Thursday at a secondary faculty in northeastern Slovakia, the TASR information company reported.
“The 18-year-old pupil suspected of getting dedicated a severe crime… was detained very shortly after the incident,” Slovak police stated on Facebook.
The assault befell in the city of Spisska Stara Ves close to Slovakia’s border with Poland, round 280 kilometres (175 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava.
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Slovak Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok condemned “the assault by a pupil who stabbed a feminine instructor and his fellow college students on the grammar faculty” in a submit on Facebook.
Offering his condolences to the households of the victims, Estok stated he was on the way in which to the crime scene.
In 2020, a instructor was stabbed to dying in an assault at an elementary faculty in central Slovakia, the primary violent assault of its form in a faculty in the nation.
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