News24 | One dead, two injured in Poland’s second school attack in two days

Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, has called an emergency meeting to discuss the attacks.

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• A 15-year-old former pupil killed one person and injured two others at a Polish primary school on Thursday, police said, just a day after a 19-year-old wounded 10 people, including himself, in an attack at another school.
• The principal and a teacher at the school who attempted to restrain the attacker received non-life-threatening injuries.
• In a separate incident on Wednesday, police detained a 17-year-old who had planned to attack his former school.

A day after a 19-year-old injured 10 people, himself among them, in an assault at one Polish school, a 15-year-old who once attended a different primary school killed one person and wounded two more there on Thursday, according to police.

Authorities said a 37-year-old woman who worked as a caretaker had died in the attack, which took place at around 07:00 GMT in Leszczydol-Nowiny, in Wyszkow County, northeast of Warsaw. “She was the first person attacked with a sharp object,” police spokesperson Katarzyna Kucharska told private broadcaster TVN24.

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“The principal heard the screams and attempted to restrain the attacker, assisted by a teacher - both were injured.” Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka said the lives of the two injured people were not in danger.

“The attacker was a former pupil of this primary school and is currently a student at a vocational school,” she said.

“At this moment, we do not know the motives. He was carrying three knives and attacked the caretaker.”

A government spokesperson said Prime Minister Donald Tusk had called an emergency meeting.

Police prevent a separate attack

Interior minister Marcin Kierwinski said that in a separate incident in Sierpc in north-central Poland on Wednesday police detained a 17-year-old who had spoken about plans to do “something dangerous” on school grounds.

“Teachers notified the police, who intervened and found two knives in his possession,” Kierwinski told a press conference. “Data recovered from electronic devices revealed online searches regarding how to orchestrate such a violent event.”

Ten people were injured in a knife attack at a school in Ostroleka in northeastern Poland on Wednesday, with police detaining the 19-year-old suspect, who was among those hurt, shortly after the incident.