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KANO, Nigeria, Feb 28, 2024 (AFP) – A meningitis outbreak in Nigeria has killed at least 20 boarding school students and infected hundreds more, the education commissioner in northeastern Yobe state said on Wednesday. “We have recorded an outbreak of meningitis in six secondary schools in the state which led to the death of 20 students out of the 473 infected,” Mohammed Sani Idriss said. The epicentre of the outbreak is the city of Potiskum […]
BERLIN, Feb 22, 2024 (AFP) – A secondary school pupil stabbed several classmates before turning the knife on himself on Thursday in an attack in the western German city of Wuppertal, police said. The suspect was taken into custody with “life-threatening injuries”, a spokesman for Duesseldorf police told AFP. Several pupils were severely wounded in the attack, although none of the injuries posed a risk to life, the spokesman said. The spokesman confirmed estimates […]
By Jing Xuan TENG YANSHANPU, China, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Authorities in central China’s Henan Province were on Sunday looking into the cause of a night-time fire that killed 13 schoolchildren as they slept in a dormitory. The inferno, which took place at the Yingcai School in Yanshanpu village, was reported to the local fire department at 11:00 pm (1500 GMT) on Friday and was put out around 40 minutes later, official news agency […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 4, 2024 (AFP) – Police were responding to a shooting at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa on Thursday morning, authorities said, though there was no immediate confirmation of any victims. “There was an active school shooting situation at Perry High School,” some 35 miles (55 kilometers) from the state capital Des Moines, an employee from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office told AFP. A news conference was scheduled for […]
By Laurent BANGUET, Clarisse LUCAS RENNES, France, Dec 14, 2023 (AFP) – A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a knife in an apparent murder attempt at a French school on Wednesday, prosecutors said, the latest incident in the country’s increasingly tense education system. No one was injured in the incident during English class in the northwestern city of Rennes but prosecutors said they have opened a criminal investigation into attempted murder. Born in 2011, […]
MOSCOW, Dec 7, 2023 (AFP) – A 14-year-old girl shot a classmate dead and injured five people before killing herself at a secondary school in the Russian city of Bryansk near the Ukraine border on Thursday. Fatal attacks at educational facilities — previously a rarity — have become more common in Russia in recent years. Moscow has taken steps to tighten already strict gun laws after a series of school attacks. After the Bryansk attack, […]
EILAT, Israel, Nov 9, 2023 (AFP) – A drone on Thursday hit a school in the southern Israeli resort of Eilat and Israeli air defences later intercepted a missile over the Red Sea, the military said. Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they had launched “a barrage of ballistic missiles” at southern Israel, but did not mention drones in their statement. No one was physically hurt in the explosion at the Eilat elementary school caused by […]
BERLIN, Nov 8, 2023 (AFP) – German police on Wednesday evacuated students from a school in Hamburg over a “threat” after reports that two individuals with a firearm were in the building. “There are currently indications of a threat situation at the Blankenese high school. Police forces are already there and carrying out the first measures,” said Hamburg police on X, formerly known as Twitter. A spokesman said two people, who were “possibly youths”, had […]
ARRAS, France, Oct 16, 2023 (AFP) – A school in northern France where a teacher was stabbed to death in an apparent Islamist attack last week was on Monday evacuated following a bomb threat, an AFP journalist said. Dozens of staff and pupils left the combined middle and high school in Arras around 10:30 am (0830 GMT). Authorities told AFP the bomb threat had been made by internet.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP) — The weekend school dormitory blaze that killed 19 minors in central Guyana was started by a disgruntled pupil angry at having her mobile phone confiscated, a government source told AFP on Tuesday. An official police report confirmed that “a female student is suspected of having set the devastating fire because her cellular phone was taken away.” The official said the teenage pupil had admitted to the arson attack and was under […]
By Denis CHABROL Agence France-Presse GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP) — At least 19 youths were killed in a schoolgirls’ dormitory blaze in Guyana, officials said Monday, with anger growing in the tiny South American country over the tragedy. It is not yet known how the fire started Sunday in a dormitory housing girls aged 11-12 and 16-17, a person who helped the emergency services said under condition of anonymity. The building was gutted by the inferno. […]
By Miodrag SOVILJ Agence France-Presse BELGRADE, Serbia (AFP) — Serbia was in mourning on Thursday a day after a 13-year-old suspect shot dead eight fellow students and a security guard after allegedly drawing up a kill list. The tragedy has left the Balkan nation reeling. Gun violence at schools is extremely rare in Serbia and the country’s president called Wednesday’s shooting “one of the most difficult days” in recent history. On Thursday, schools across Serbia […]
