A Pupil Fatally Stabs a Teacher at an Elementary School in Slovakia, Injuring 2 Others
Authorities said the suspect injured at least two others and hospitalized a child and a teacher as police said there was no further public threat.
- On Tuesday, a pupil at an elementary school in Staskov, Slovakia, fatally stabbed a 61-year-old woman and injured at least two other people, authorities said.
- Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok, Education Minister Tomáš Drucker, and Health Minister Kamil Šaško traveled to Staskov to assess the incident as President Peter Pellegrini and Prime Minister Robert Fico offered condolences.
- Emergency Medical Services Operations Centre spokeswoman Petra Klimesova reported a pupil in critical condition and a 41-year-old female teacher hospitalized with serious injuries, including a 44-year-old transported with a stab wound to the chest.
- Police have the situation in Staskov under control with no further threat to the public, though authorities have not yet reported a possible motive for the attack.
- Slovakia has faced recurring school violence, including a 2020 attack in Vrutky where a 22-year-old former student killed the deputy principal and wounded five people, and a 2022 assault in Novaky.
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A teacher was killed and another child injured today, Tuesday, as a result of a knife attack carried out by a student inside a school in the city of Staskov, north-west of Slovakia.
The attack occurred around 07:00 GMT in the village of Staskov, near the Czech border. The assailant, a 13-year-old student, was arrested, said the police. "This morning, after the first class, a student of the school committed a stabbing attack," said the Minister of the Interior, Matus Sutaj Estok, at a press conference in the early afternoon. "A 61-year-old teacher died as a result of her injuries after her transfer to the hospital," said the…
The incident took place at a public elementary school in the town of Staskov, which has a population of about 3,000.
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