Seven injured in Polish school knife attack, police say

WARSAW, Oct 7 — Seven people were injured in a knife ​attack at a school in Ostroleka, north-eastern Poland, police said on Wednesday, adding that the ‌attacker had been detained.

"A 19-year-old student from the school was detained ⁠near the town beach," ​police spokesperson Katarzyna Kucharska ⁠told Reuters by telephone.

"We have preliminary information about seven ‌people being injured, ‌but this is very tentative and may ⁠change. I have no ⁠information about any fatalities."

Police posted a photo on X showing a man they appeared to have apprehended lying face down in a wooded area.

Prosecutor Elzbieta Lukasiewicz told private broadcaster TVN24 that the ‌attack happened around 0900 GMT.

The ​injured were being treated at the Mazovian Specialist Hospital in Ostroleka and would not be transferred elsewhere, a representative of the hospital's Accident and Emergency department told TVN24.

The mayor of Ostroleka confirmed that an attack had taken place and that ​several people were injured.

"The most important information is ‌that the situation ‌has ⁠been brought under control," Mayor Pawel Niewiadomski said in a statement.

Private broadcaster RMF FM reported that there were two serious injuries among the wounded.

According to ‌RMF most victims were ​students, although one teacher ‌was also wounded.

(Reporting ⁠by Alan ​Charlish, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Toby Chopra, ​Aidan Lewis)

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