Published: January 16, 2025 3:23 pm
Author: RT
The teenage suspect allegedly stabbed a teacher and two classmates in eastern Slovakia
A knife-wielding student killed two people and critically injured a third in an attack at a grammar school in the Slovak town of Spisska Stara Ves on Thursday. The perpetrator fled the scene but was arrested shortly afterwards.
The 18-year-old student attacked two classmates and a teacher, according to a police statement released immediately after the incident. A police spokesperson later told Slovakian broadcaster SME that two of the three victims had died, while the third was in critical condition.
The spokesperson said that it remains unclear whether anyone else was injured.
The student fled the scene, prompting a police manhunt around Spisska Stara Ves, a town of around 2,000 people near Slovakia’s Polish border. He was apprehended shortly afterwards, according to a police update.
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“It is a true tragedy what happened at the grammar school,” President Peter Pellegrini said in a statement on social media. “The peaceful and civilized resolution of any disputes, without hatred and violence, must be the goal of the entire nation and the entire society,” he added.
Incidences of violence in schools are rare in Slovakia. In 2020, police shot and killed a man who fatally stabbed a teacher and injured five people, including two children, at a school in the town of Vrutky. The attack was the first of its kind in Slovakian history.
