Attacker, Director, die in Slovak school assault
Police in Slovakia has disclosed that a man, who attacked school staff in Slovakia’s Vrutky town has been killed.
According to the police, the attack at the school was an assault that left one adult dead.
The spokeswoman for the country’s rescue services stated that the violence on Thursday June 11, 2020, five people, including two children sustained injuries while the school’s deputy director was killed.
Slovak media reported that the attacker stabbed victims and was then shot by police as he ran away from the school in the town of Vrutky, 220km (137 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava.
According to the Associated Press news agency, the attacker was identified as a 22-year-old man from the nearby town of Martin.
“He broke the glass door to get in, the staff tried to stop him and he used a knife he had brought with him,” Slovak police chief, Milan Lucansky, said on his official Facebook page.
“He dealt a lethal injury to a deputy principal and injured the caretaker, then he got inside the building where he caused a serious injury to a female teacher and then injured two kids with multiple stab wounds,” he added.
“He then tried to escape with the caretaker running after him. A policeman chased him, but he tried to defend himself with the knife so they used their guns and killed him,” he stated.
Prime Minister, Igor Matovic, conveyed his sincere condolences to the family of the victim.
The interior minister was flying to the scene, Matovic told journalists on the sidelines of a meeting of central European leaders in the neighbouring Czech Republic.
Slovak primary schools began reopening on June 1 under an easing of coronavirus lockdown measures.
The United School serves children from primary age up to high school.
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