Teacher killed in student attack at an elementary school in Slovakia, 2 others injured
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Teacher stabbed to death in Slovakia after student attacks class with knife
President Peter Pellegrini said he was ‘deeply saddened by the tragic incident’
Rich Booth Tuesday 29 September 2026 14:42 BST
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A teacher has been killed after being stabbed by a pupil at an school in Slovakia.
The incident happened at a elementary school in the northwest of the country on Tuesday during an attack in which two other people were seriously injured.
The teacher who was killed was a 61-year-old woman. The injured included a pupil who was in critical condition and a 41-year-old female teacher who was hospitalized with serious injuries, Slovakis’a rescue service said.
Police said a 13-year-old suspect was in police custody and that the situation was under control and there was no further threat to the public. A motive was not immediately known.
open image in galleryPresident Peter Pellegrini said he was “deeply saddened by the tragic incident” at the school in Staskov. He and Prime Minister Robert Fico offered condolences to the victims’ families.
“Such events serve as a serious warning to our entire society,” Pellegrini said. “It is all the more important that we pay close attention to the atmosphere we create in society. We need more calm, respect, and mutual regard.”
Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok, Education Minister Tomáš Drucker and Health Minister Kamil Šaško traveled to the town.
In a similar incident in 2025, an 18-year-old student fatally stabbed a 51-year-old deputy principal and an 18-year-old student at a high school in northern Slovakia.
In 2020, a 22-year-old former student attacked a high school in the town of Vrutky, killing the deputy principal and wounding five people, including two students. In 2022, a high school student attacked and injured a female pupil at a high school in Novaky.
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