Police secure access to the elementary school where a 7-year-old girl died and a teacher and five other students were wounded in a knife attack in Zagreb, Croatia, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- A knife-wielding teenager walked into a school in Croatia's capital Zagreb on Friday, killing a 7-year-old student and injuring three more children and a teacher, authorities said.
Authorities said the knife attack happened at 9:50 a.m. at the Precko Elementary School in the neighborhood of the same name. They described the attacker as a 19-year-old male and said he had been detained after inflicting injuries to himself.
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