A 14-year-old high school student (name withheld) in the southern Spanish town of Jérez de la Frontera has been arrested after wounding three teachers and two pupils with a knife.
Euronews reports that on Thursday morning the National Police received a call alerting them that an armed individual was attacking people.
According to one of his classmates, the student entered the classroom “angry” and sat in the back, then grabbed “knives” from his backpack.
The attacker used two kitchen knives to attack classmates and teachers.
According to police sources, they all received “varying degrees of severity” injuries. One of the teachers is in critical condition after suffering an eye injury.
Another student, who suffered minor injuries, has already been released from the hospital where he was admitted this morning.
According to El Pas, the assailant approached one of his classmates from behind and stabbed him with two knives while screaming, “I’m going to kill you.”
The remainder of the class left, and the biology teacher, who was in the room at the time, approached the adolescent and asked him to “please stop.”
The youngster allegedly then attacked her eye.
He then exited the classroom and proceeded to another. One instructor and several pupils, according to a student who spoke to El Pas, were able to stop him.
According to the EFE news agency, which spoke with another student at the school, the aggressor “is not a problematic person, but he is always alone, he has ‘a thing,’ and I think he has lost his mind.”
According to his classmates, who have stated in the media that he has Asperger’s syndrome, the minor may have a mental illness.
They also said the child may have been bullied because “some of his classmates laughed at him”, “others threw water on him in the playground”.
All pupils have been evacuated from the school while police continue to investigate.
