Student Arrested After Students Stabbed at Canada School

Six students and two workers were stabbed Tuesday at a high school near Toronto, Canadian police reported after taking a female student into custody.

“It was two staff members who were actually able to stop the attack from happening”, Durham Regional Police Sgt. Bill Calder told reporters.

Calder said that two of the eight people injured were staff members, however it is not immediately clear whether those staff members were the ones who intervened and helped detain the suspect.

He later tweeted that one person suffered serious injuries while five more sustained minor injuries – none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening.

Dave Selby, a spokesman for Durham, said a lockdown remained in place at the school, but there was no active threat.

Zakyr Rhemtulla, a first year student, said he was faced with chaos from the moment he arrived at school this morning.

“Then she could hear doors slamming and people screaming”, the mother described. “They locked the door, closed the curtains, turned the lights off”. There was blood on the ground. “Another two teachers, we don’t know if it was the same two, apprehended the student until police arrived”.

Several hours after the incident, some students were skateboarding outside while parents milled about, waiting for their sons and daughters to be released.

Lynn Sharma dropped her son off at school around 8:30 a.m. and shortly after received a text from him saying there was an attack on other students, but that he was safe.

Calder said the lockdown was being lifted in a “controlled” fashion, with officers doing a room-by-room search for witnesses and evidence.

“I just want to bring him home”.