Knife attack at a school in Ostrołęka: nine injured

At Vocational School Complex No. 4 in Ostrołęka (Masovian Voivodeship) a man with a knife injured nine people: five pupils, two teachers and two passers-by. Police detained a 19-year-old suspect by the city beach.

The school is closed and police are examining the building. Krzysztof Chojnowski, editor-in-chief of the portal Moja Ostrołęka, recalled that in 2023 at a school in Kadzidło, in the same powiat, an attacker with a knife injured three people.

Updated 8 October: at first eight injured were reported, on updated information nine. Details of the investigation are in a separate story.