Wales school stabbing – latest: Girl, 13, charged with three counts of attempted murder
Police and ambulance called out to Amman Valley School in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire
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A 13-year-old girl has been charged with three counts of attempted murder, after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed at a secondary school in Wales.
The three people injured in the attack at Amman Valley School in Carmarthenshire on Wednesday morning have now left hospital, where they were treated for knife wounds.
Two air ambulances were sent to the school, also known as Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, as emergency services swarmed the scene.
Parents waited for several hours at the gates of the school, which was “in lockdown”, before tearfully being reunited with their children as the school day ended.
The teachers injured are reported to be Fiona Elias, the deputy head, and Liz Hopkin, a special-needs teacher. In a statement on the school website, headteacher James Durbridge praised staff and pupils for their “calm and mature response” to the lockdown.
Plaid Cymru’s Adam Price – a former pupil at the school – described it as a “centre point for the whole community” and said pupils and families have been “shocked and shaken”.
Families informed, says school
Amman Valley School posted on its website: “You will be aware of the incident that has taken place at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman today.
“The family members of all injured persons have been informed. We would like to reassure parents and the public that the incident has been contained.”
Teacher wounded, says local man
Sion, 25, who has friends with children at the school, said he was alerted to the incident first by the sound of a helicopter, then posts on social media.
“I got down here because some of my mates with children here couldn’t, and I wanted to show my support and pass any information on,” he told The Independent.
“Children were kept in lockdown at the school following the incident until 3.10pm, when they left at normal time.”
He said he believed the incident involved pupils in Years 9-10, and that a teacher was hurt.
He said: “You never want to hear anything like this happening, especially in a small town like here where nothing happens, and definitively not in a school. I just hope everyone is OK.”
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