Knife attack at Polish school leaves 7 injured; 19-year-old student arrested

Polish police have arrested a 19-year-old man after a knife attack at a vocational school in Ostrołęka, north of Warsaw, left at least seven people injured on Wednesday, according to police and local authorities.The provincial police headquarters said the man was detained after emergency services were called to Vocational School Complex No. 4. Police said the attack took place at around 11am and that the attacker used a “sharp object”.The suspect was a student at the school, police said. He was also wounded when he was arrested and was taken to hospital. Police did not immediately provide details about the severity of his injuries.Ostrołęka mayor Paweł Niewiadomski said authorities had brought the situation under control and were working to establish what had happened.“The most important information is that the situation has been brought under control,” mayor Paweł Niewiadomski said in a statement.He said authorities were at the school seeking to clarify “all the circumstances of the incident”.Police said the seven injured included both students and teachers. Local broadcaster RMF FM reported that most of those wounded were students and that one teacher was among the victims. It also reported that two people had suffered serious injuries.Police later published a photograph on X showing an officer with his hand on the back of a person lying on the ground with their hands tied behind their back. The person's face and hands were pixelated in the image.The incident prompted a major emergency response at the school, while police began an investigation into the circumstances of the attack.School attacks are uncommon in Poland. However, a stabbing at a Catholic convent in south-eastern Poland last month left one person dead and four others injured, according to the report. Police detained a suspect in that case.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.