This handout picture taken and released by Policja Mazowsze on October 7, 2026, shows two policemen detaining a suspected high school knife attacker in the town of Ostroleka, some 130 km north of Warsaw. Photo by Handout / Policja Mazowsze / AFP
Warsaw: Officers have arrested a 19-year-old man after seven people were wounded in a knife attack at a high school in Poland, police said Wednesday.
The attack happened at a school in Ostroleka, 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the capital Warsaw, said police, who released a blurred photo of the suspect following his arrest.
Ostroleka prosecutor Elzbieta Lukasiewicz said the victims were students and teachers.
"It appears that the boy went into the school and attacked the students and teachers with a dangerous tool," Lukasiewicz told news channel TVN24.
"Based on the information I have, eight people were injured."
The fire department told the PAP news agency that the injured included three adults and five teenagers.
