7-year-old killed, others injured after stabbing attack at Croatia school
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The attack took place around 9:50 a.m. on the last day of school before Christmas at the Precko Elementary School in Zagreb.
A knife-wielding teenager walked into a school in Croatia’s capital on Friday, stabbed a 7-year-old girl to death and wounded three more children and their teacher, authorities said.
The attack took place around 9:50 a.m. on the last day of school before Christmas at the Precko Elementary School in the Zagreb neighbourhood of the same name. Children between the ages of 7 and 15 attend the school.
Bozinovic said the attacker had mental health problems and had made a previous attempt to kill himself.
“It is hard to say this person was mentally balanced,” he said.
“Five persons have been hospitalized and their lives are not in danger,” Health Minister Irena Hrstic told the media. That number includes the suspected attacker.
School attacks are rare in Croatia and in the Balkans as a whole, although in May 2023, a teenager in neighbouring Serbia opened fire at a school in the capital, Belgrade, killing nine fellow students and a school guard.
Video footage broadcast by Croatian media on Friday showed children running away from the school building and a medical helicopter landing in the schoolyard.
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