Crime: Teenager seriously injures her classmate with a knife

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Teenager seriously injures classmate with knife

A 16-year-old seriously injured a 15-year-old classmate in a Cuxhaven school with a knife. The injured person was taken to hospital in an ambulance after the crime, a police spokesman said. There is no danger to life. The background to the knife attack was an argument between the suspect and the victim. It is still unclear what the dispute was about.

The crime took place in front of other classmates in a classroom at the Lüdingworth School, a primary and secondary school in the district of the same name. A teacher and classmates stopped the 16-year-old perpetrator from committing further crimes. The spokesman emphasized that there was no danger to other students or teachers. The crime was reported around 9:30 a.m.

Lower Saxony’s Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg announced a detailed investigation into the knife attack. “I am deeply shocked by this act in one of our schools,” said the Green politician. “My thoughts at this time are with the injured girl, her family and the entire school community.”

It is not the first time that a knife has been stabbed in a school. At the end of May, a 17-year-old seriously injured a 16-year-old with a knife in a toilet at a vocational school in Wildeshausen near Bremen. The teenager was convicted of attempted malicious murder by the Oldenburg regional court in November and ordered that he be placed in a mental hospital.

In January, a 17-year-old student stabbed a 55-year-old teacher to death in a classroom at a vocational college in Ibbenbüren, north of Münster on the state border with Lower Saxony. In April, the teenager was found dead in the Herford correctional facility.

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