Student stabs at least four in South Korean high school attack

Seoul: A teenage student stabbed at least four people, injuring three of them seriously, in a knife attack at a South Korean high school on Monday, po...

Seoul: A teenage student stabbed at least four people, injuring three of them seriously, in a knife attack at a South Korean high school on Monday, police said.

The attack happened around 8:36 am at a school in Cheongju, 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of Seoul, according to police reports.

Police received a report that "a student had stabbed someone in a classroom with a knife", the Chungbuk Provincial Police Agency said in a statement.

The three people who were seriously injured included the school's headmaster, who suffered a stab wound to the abdomen.

A government employee was also stabbed in the chest and the school's janitor was stabbed in the back, according to police.