One person has died and four others have been injured after a 13-year-old student armed with a crossbow and a dagger burst into a high school in Barcelona.
The victim was a substitute teacher who was covering social sciences classes for a colleague. Three of the four people injured are now being treated in the Hospital Sant Pau in Barcelona, and are reported to be in a stable condition.
The incident took place on Monday morning at the Joan Fuster school, located in Ferran Reyes square in La Sagrera neighborhood.
The youngster was also carrying a pellet gun and a rucksack containing material that could be used to make a petrol bomb.Because of his age, the perpetrator will not be charged for the offenses under Spanish law, and could not even be arrested.
The teacher who was killed had been at the school for less than two weeks.
