Poland school attack: 15-year-old stabs school caretaker, injures two others

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A 15-year-old fatally stabbed the caretaker at his former school in Poland and wounded two other adults on Thursday, a day after a similar knife attack wounded nine in a Polish high school, police said.

Police arrested the boy after the attack at the John-Paul II primary school in Leszczydol-Nowiny, a small town 70 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Warsaw, a police spokesperson told AFP.

"The caretaker was the first person assaulted by the former student," said Katarzyna Kucharska, spokesperson for the police in the Warsaw region.

"Then a teacher and the head of the school managed to overpower him, even though he struck them with his weapon."

The caretaker, 37, died of their wounds, regional police said on X.

Police said they had also detained a 17-year-old boy in another Polish town after he made it known that he intended to do "something spectacular" at his school.

Officers found a bag containing two knives in his apartment.

Thursday's attack came a day after a 19-year-old was arrested after nine people were wounded at a high school in Ostroleka, 120 kilometres north of Warsaw.

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