A student attending Tusbub Secondary School in Madang was stabbed within the school perimeters yesterday. The male victim was attending to an exam at around 9:30am when he was lured out of class under false pretences and stabbed. Eyewitnesses said the school grounds turned into a chaotic arena after the stabbing, with violent opportunists climbing the school fences and storming the school’s main gate. All classrooms were observed to have been locked down by teachers who did not allow students to go outside.
One student described the pandemonium as something out of a horror film. It was established that the school was surrounded by a mixed group of assailants comprising Tusbub senior students and individuals from PHD compound and Gubsko settlement. Three police vehicles arrived on the scene a half an hour later but did little to quell the violent mob that ran rampant around the school looking for innocent victims to befall. Persons from the Gubsko area who were on the scene told this paper that they were frustrated because a member of their community had been stabbed on Wednesday evening and that the assailants were believed to be students attending the school. These men said that the attack on the school would not have eventuated had the assailants come clean with a proper compensatory measure for the deadly infliction caused to one of their own who is making a recovery at the Modilon Hospital. Tusbub Secondary School Principle Alphonse Igag said the attack on the school was one of the most serious of recent times and that the stabbing of a student within the school grounds was the utmost extreme negative outcome that has ever happened. The principle added that the stabbing rendered the school an unsafe place. Furthermore, he has told students to stay home and let the police investigate the reasons for the attack. “The school is supposed to be a safe place, if a student’s life can be in direct threat as was the case yesterday, then I do not see any reason why the school should allow students to come to class,” said a distraught Mr Igag. The student who was stabbed was rushed away hurriedly, thus the outcome of his infliction remains uncertain. Post courier Comments are closed.
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