Student kills teacher, classmate in Slovak high school knife attack

A student killed a female teacher and classmate with a knife and injured another classmate at a high school in northern Slovakia on Thursday, officials said.

Several emergency crews were dispatched to the school in Spisska Stara Ves, where two people were discovered dead and a third was taken to hospital with medium-severity injuries, emergency services spokesperson Danka Capakova told Reuters.

The emergency services said the victims were 51 and 18, both female, and the injured was an 18 year-old woman, she said.

The three attacked were a female teacher and two classmates, Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said on Facebook.

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