South Korea student stabs three in school knife attack

SEOUL: A student stabbed three people in a knife attack at a South Korean high school on Monday morning (Apr 28) and injured two others, police said.

The attack happened around 8.36am at a school in Cheongju, 110km south of Seoul, according to police reports.

Police received a report that “a student had stabbed someone in a classroom with a knife”, Chungbuk Provincial Police Agency said in a statement sent to reporters.

Three people were seriously injured, including the school’s headmaster, who suffered an abdominal stab wound, and a government employee who was stabbed in his chest.

Police said two other people suffered minor injuries.