NEW SCHOOL ATTACK, ONE PERSON KILLED, TWO INJURED

WARSAW, OCTOBER 8 /SRNA-Reuters/ - One person was killed and two others were injured in a sharp-object attack at a school in the Polish town of Leszczynodol-Nowiny, and a 15-year-old attacker was arrested, police said.

A 37-year-old woman, who was a school employee, was killed, while the injured were the school principal, who subdued the attacker, and a janitor.

The attacker was a former pupil at the school.

Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said that, in a separate incident in Sierpc, police detained a 17-year-old who was planning an attack and who was found with two knives in his backpack.

Ten people were injured yesterday in an attack by a 19-year-old at a school in the Polish city of Ostrołęka.

Police detained the suspect, who inflicted injuries on himself, shortly after the incident.