Schoolboy goes on the rampage
2008-08-18 10:41
Krugersdorp - A matric boy stabbed a fellow pupil to death with a sword and injured two gardeners at Nic Diederichs technical high school in Krugersdorp on Monday morning, Johannesburg police said.
The matriculant, wearing a black balaclava over a face smeared with black paint, entered the school premises with the sword and stabbed and killed a boy just before school assembly, said Captain Jacob Raboroko.
"He stabbed one of the school kids in the neck and he died. He then went further and stabbed a gardener in the back and another gardener in the face," said Raboroko.
"They were taken to hospital in serious conditions."
Raboroko said details of the attack were still sketchy, but said that the matriculant had been arrested. He did not know the age of the boy who died.
The police were at the scene, taking statements from teachers and school children.
Lessons at the school in Krugersdorp North have been suspended for the day.
- SAPA