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Teen knife attack kills 1, injures 2 in Polish school

WARSAW, — A 15-year-old fatally stabbed the caretaker at his former school in Poland and wounded two other adults on Thursday, a day after a similar knife attack wounded nine in a Polish high school, police said. Police arrested the boy after the attack at the John-Paul II primary school in Leszczydol-Nowiny, a small town 70 kilometres northeast of Warsaw, a police spokesperson told AFP. "The…

Teen knife attack kills 1, injures 2 in Polish school

A 15-year-old boy fatally stabbed a caretaker at his former primary school in Leszczydol-Nowiny, Poland, on Thursday, resulting in one death and two injuries, according to police. The attack occurred a day after a similar incident where a 19-year-old wounded nine individuals at a high school in Ostroleka, located 120 kilometers north of Warsaw.

The police apprehended the 15-year-old assailant following the incident at the John-Paul II primary school. Katarzyna Kucharska, a spokesperson for the Warsaw region's police, confirmed that the caretaker was the first victim, and that a teacher and the school's head managed to subdue the attacker despite his attempts to continue the attack with his knife.

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