Boy of 16 killed in school knife attack

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death at a secondary school in the town of Žďár nad Sázavou on Tuesday morning. A woman of 26 with an address in Ostrava was apprehended at the scene of the knife attack, in which three other students and a police officer were also injured. One of the students underwent surgery and is now in a stable condition. The attacker, who is not known to have any connection with the economics oriented secondary school, was involved in a stabbing two years ago but the case was halted when she was found to be mentally ill.

Author: Ian Willoughby