Victims Of Death Of Pisau Student Attack In Slovakia Kill Teachers And Classmates

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JAKARTA - A student killed a female teacher and her classmate with a knife. The knife student attack also injured another classmate in high school in Slovakia.

Several emergency crews were sent to a school in Spisska Stara Ves, where two people were found dead and several people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, emergency services spokesman Danka Capakova told Reuters on Thursday, January 16.

Emergency services said the victims were 51 and 18 years old, both were women. While the injured was an 18-year-old woman.

Minister of Home Affairs Matus Sutaj Estok via Facebook said the three people who were attacked were a female teacher and two classmates.

An 18-year-old female (male) suspected of committing a serious act in the Spisska Stara Ves was detained shortly after the incident, police said.

Estok, education minister and police chief headed to the scene in Spisska Stara Ves, a city of about 2,000 people on the Polish border, 376 km (234 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava.

Serious violence is rare in Slovakia, a central European country of 5.4 million people. The country was shocked last May when Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot in an assassination attempt.

"There is no problem in this world that can be solved with a knife or any weapon," President Peter Pellegrini said in a statement.