Spain shocked as 14-year-old stabs five people in school

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Jerez de la Frontera in the southern Andalusia region, police spokesman Adrian Dominguez told reporters at the scene.

«Police located the suspect on the third floor. He had in his possession the two knives used to attack three teachers and two students,» Dominguez said, adding the suspect had been taken to a police station.

Four of the injured were treated in hospital, including a teacher who will need surgery to her eye after being stabbed by the pupil, the regional government's eduction minister, Patricia del Pozo, told reporters. Several students told Spanish media the pupil first stabbed members of his class and the teacher who suffered the eye injury before he ran to another classroom and continued his attack.

One student, who was not identified, told private television La Sexta the attacker ran to the back of the class, «dropped his backpack on the floor and pulled out the knives before shouting 'I'm going to kill you!'» «He was running, chasing people, everyone went out into the playground,» he added. Another unnamed student told Canal Sur television the pupil had «a look on his face like he wanted to stab everyone.»

Parents rushed to the school, gathering outside the gates which were cordoned off by police, images broadcast on Spanish TV showed.

Students were evacuated from the school and given the rest of the day off. «It was devastating and dramatic because all the parents were outside the school wishing they could hug their children,» Jerez de la Frontera mayor Maria Jose Garcia-Pelayo told reporters, adding that the teachers managed to disarm the suspect.