A 13-year-old boy armed with a crossbow and a machete has killed a teacher in Barcelona, wounding another teacher and two pupils in the attack.
The incident happened at 9.15am on Monday at the Joan Fuster secondary school in La Sagrera, a district in the north of the city.
Eye- witnesses said the boy arrived late for school and that, when a female teacher opened the door, he fired the crossbow at her face.
The boy, who was dressed in camouflage gear, is then said to have fired at the teacher’s daughter, a student in the class.
Hearing the cries, another teacher reportedly rushed to the scene and was trying to protect his colleague when the boy attacked him.
He fell to the ground and died. The man was a supply teacher covering for a social sciences teacher’s absence and had been at the school for little more than a week.
The three injured people were taken to hospital.
The boy has been arrested but, as he is 13, he will not face criminal charges.
In Spain, the age of criminal responsibility is 18, although in some cases younger people may be held criminally responsible for their actions.
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