14-year-old girl stabbed at school in Kumamoto

KUMAMOTO — A 14-year-old girl was stabbed by a male pupil at a junior high school in Yamato, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Tuesday. Education board officials said she was stabbed in the head, shoulder and other parts of her body but is not in critical condition. The boy suspected of stabbing her was in the same grade as the girl, the prefectural school board said.

Police said the two students were talking to each other on the third floor of the school building and appeared to have some dispute. The girl was wearing a gym uniform soaked with blood when she arrived at the staffroom for help, they said. A teacher rushed to the third floor and found the male student about to attempt to jump from the veranda but saved him, they said. The boy was in a state of shock and was also taken to hospital, though he had no external injuries, they said."