Two victims and the student taken to hospital for treatment after incident in Halifax
Police officers have arrested a student on suspicion of stabbing two staff members at a high school in Canada’s Atlantic coast city of Halifax, police said.
The two victims and the student were taken to hospital for treatment after the attack on Monday, and the extent of their injuries remains unclear. Halifax regional police confirmed that the suspect is a student at the school. Lindsey Bunin, spokeswoman for Halifax regional center for education, said there had been concern about the student, who was in an administrative office at the time of the attack.Police said they responded to a weapons complaint at around 9.20am, and a suspect was taken into custody about 10 minutes later.
The school, with about 1,700 students in grades 10 through 12, was briefly locked down and then closed for the remainder of the day, with students released.Raghad Ghazal, a 15-year-old grade 10 student, said she was outside when she spotted “a guy with a knife running away and then a security guard chasing after him with a broom”.
“He was just chasing after him and then there were five police cars that came and they were surrounding him,” she said as she waited outside the school for a bus. “I was kind of shocked.”“I didn’t think something like this would happen in our school,” she said.
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