POLICE

A student stabbed three teachers and two students at a high school in Spain

The events would have been triggered when the 14-year-old student took two knives out of his suitcase and tried to stab one of his classmates. As the other students and teachers tried to subdue him, the teenager inflicted injuries of varying degrees on some of them.

  • 04/10/2023 • 16:16

A 14-year-old student attacked three teachers and two students with two knives this Thursday at a secondary school located in southern Spain and was later arrested in the same school building, local police reported. The teenager stabbed five people several times shortly before the start of classes at the Elena García Armada Institute school in the city of Jerez de la Frontera, in the southern part of Andalusia, reported police spokesman Adrián Domínguez. "The alleged perpetrator of the events was located on the third floor; he had in his possession two knives used to attack three teachers and two students," Domínguez said, adding that the suspect was already taken to a police station, according to the police. AFP news agency. The spokesperson did not give details about the severity of the injuries, but according to Spanish media, one of the teachers is in serious condition after being hit in the eye, while the others are slightly injured and were treated at the scene. . by health personnel. Worried about their children, the parents gathered this Thursday morning at the doors of the secondary school, which was surrounded by the police, according to images from local television. "It has been devastating, it has been dramatic because all the parents were outside the center and logically wanting to be able to hug their sons and daughters," said the mayor of Jerez de la Frontera, María José García-Pelayo, who explained that the The attacker was subdued by several teachers.