A teacher has been killed and four people wounded after a 13-year-old boy entered his secondary school in Barcelona and began shooting a crossbow.
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According to witnesses in Barcelona’s El Periódico newspaper, the student knocked on the door of a classroom on arriving late for his lesson and fired point blank into the face of the female teacher who opened it.
Those sources then said the boy attacked the female teacher’s daughter, who was in the same classroom.
On hearing the commotion, a male teacher from a nearby classroom approached the scene and was stabbed in the chest with a large knife, causing him an injury which proved fatal. The suspect is then said to have entered another classroom and attacked a male student with the knife.
A further teacher is also reported to have been injured. All four wounded, three of whom were taken to Barcelona’s Sant Pau hospital, are said to be stable.
The attacker was also found to have materials apparently intended for use as a petrol bomb in his rucksack.According to the article, Spain requires a license in order to obtain a crossbow, which license must be renewed every 5 years.
Sounds like it's time for common sense crossbow control legislation.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's as dumb as it sounds.
The only fatality was from a stabbing, so I would add that they need to ban any sharp, point objects.
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