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| - A teacher died in a stabbing attack in an elementary school in central Slovakia on Thursday, police said, adding that officers responding to the incident killed the assailant. Police identified the killer as a 22-year-old male, a former student of the school in the town of Vrutky, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava. The attacker stabbed and killed the deputy headmaster and injured several others -- one child is in a serious condition and a female teacher is fighting for her life. Officers opened fire on the man, killing him near the school as he attempted to escape. The killing sent shock waves through the central European nation, where the incident was the first violent attack of its kind in a school. "He broke the glass door to get in, the staff tried to stop him and he used a knife he had brought with him," police chief Milan Lucansky said on his official Facebook page. "He dealt a lethal injury to a deputy principal and injured the caretaker, then he got inside the building where he caused a serious injury to a female teacher and then injured two kids with multiple stab wounds." "He then tried to escape with the caretaker running after him. A policeman chased him, but he tried to defend himself with the knife so they used their guns and killed him." Although he did not go into detail about the attacker's motives, Lucansky said the young man appeared to have "struggled with mental health problems". Reports identified the victim as 64-year-old Jaroslav Budz, a mathematics and physics teacher, who sustained fatal stab wounds as he tried to protect school children. Health Minister Marek Krajci said the teacher and children had suffered "severe stab wounds". A boy who sustained multiple wounds to his chest and abdomen was in a "serious but stable condition" following an operation at a hospital in the nearby town of Martin. The teacher had to undergo two operations before her condition stabilised, he added. Prime Minister Igor Matovic conveyed his "sincere condolences" to the victim's family, speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a meeting of central European leaders in the neighbouring Czech Republic. President Zuzana Caputova offered her condolences and support for "all the teachers, police officers, children and their parents affected by this difficult and fearful time". Reports indicated that lingering coronavirus restrictions meant few of the school's nearly 200 pupils were on its grounds at the time of the attack. bur-mas/jxb
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