Polish Teen Kills 1 in School Knife Attack as Police Probe Online Challenge
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 8
Polish Teen Kills 1 in School Knife Attack as Police Probe Online Challenge
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 8
Summary
A 15-year-old boy wearing a helmet-mounted camera attacked his former primary school near Warsaw on Thursday, killing a 37-year-old caretaker and wounding two others.
Police are investigating whether the stabbing was tied to an online challenge urging teenagers to kill as many people as possible; Prime Minister Donald Tusk called it a possible copycat wave.
School head Krzysztof Ochmanski said the attacker carried three knives and injured him before he managed to restrain the boy in the hallway.
The assault was Poland's second school stabbing in two days, after a 19-year-old wounded 10 people in Ostroleka; police also arrested a 17-year-old this week over suspected plans for a similar attack.
Tusk ordered daily police visits to schools, saying authorities were confronting an extraordinary threat marked by the first known attacker in Poland to film a knife assault with a helmet camera.