Girl severely injured in Berlin primary school knife attack
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Two schoolgirls, thought to be aged seven or eight, were attacked with a knife at a school in the Berlin district of Neukoelln.
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BERLIN - A girl sustained life-threatening injuries in a knife attack at her primary school in Berlin on Wednesday and a suspect was detained, the police said.
A second girl was also injured in the attack at the school in the Berlin district of Neukoelln, they said.
The schoolmates, thought to be aged seven or eight, were both rushed to hospital.
A suspect was arrested near the school grounds following the incident.
The circumstances surrounding the attack were not immediately clear, a police spokesman said. The spokesman added that it was not clear whether the assailant was known to the schoolgirls.
Berlin’s regional interior minister Iris Spranger said she was “deeply shocked” by the events at the school. AFP
