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.
“The 18-year old (male) student suspected of committing a serious act in Spisska Stara Ves was detained a very short time after the incident,” the police said earlier on Facebook.
Estok, the minister of education and the chief of police headed to the scene in Spisska Stara Ves, a town of around 2,000 people on the Polish border, 376km (234 miles) north-east of the capital Bratislava.