The attack took place around 9:50 a.m. on the last day of school before Christmas at the Precko Elementary School in Zagreb.
Police officers and emergency units guard the entrance of the "Precko" primary school after a stabbing attack in Zagreb on December 20, 2024.A knife-wielding teenager walked into a school in Croatia ’s capital on Friday, stabbed a 7-year-old girl to death and wounded three more children and their teacher, authorities said.
“The attacker is a 19-year-old who is a former student of that school and still lives nearby,” said Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic. “Eventually he started injuring himself. Police prevented him from suicide.”“It is hard to say this person was mentally balanced,” he said. School attacks are rare in Croatia and in the Balkans as a whole, although in May 2023, a teenager in neighbouring SerbiaA 30-year mortgage with no rate hikes: Can the U.S. model work in Canada?Video footage broadcast by Croatian media on Friday showed children running away from the school building and a medical helicopter landing in the schoolyard.Authorities in Croatia declared Saturday a day or mourning and cancelled some of the Christmas festivities.
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