Three people were stabbed on Wednesday in a university classroom in the Canadian city of Waterloo and a person has been taken into custody, police said.
The extent of the injuries in the attack in the University of Waterloo's Hagey Hall was not immediately known. The victims were taken to a hospital.
One person was taken into custody, police said. Authorities did not provide a motive for the attack and said more details will be released as they become available. Yusuf Kaymak, a student at University of Waterloo, told CTV News the attack happened in a gender studies class.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
“The guy basically walked in and asked the teacher if he was the professor, he said ‘yeah’ then he pulled out a knife and after that, everybody just ran out,” Kaymak said to CTV. “I ran out, and after we went outside, there was a kid that was stabbed. He was bleeding his arm. I don’t know what happened to the professor," he said.
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