Three secondary school students who were seriously injured after a child entered the institution with an ax and knife in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, were taken to intensive care. Speaking to the official Kazinform news agency, an official said that the arrested attacker “had come out of the school bathroom with a knife and an ax”.
According to international media reports, the Kazakh teenager donned a sinister-looking plastic mask and ran down the hallway, waving an ax at the other students. Witnesses explain that when one of the boys tried to defend himself, the young man was caught in a lethal thrush, aimed directly at his heart.
Petropavlovsk is a city of about 200,000 inhabitants near the Russian border. Although bullying and gang violence are known problems, violent attacks are rare in schools in the former Soviet republic. The prosecutor explains that the attacker was followed because of mental problems.
Source: Today IT
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