More than 170 minors have been detained in Poland following a series of knife attacks on schools, as police carry out large-scale checks across the country, according to infohub.kz.
NUR.KZ, citing RIA Novosti, reports that the detentions were announced by Magdalena Rogulska, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration of Poland.
"The morning report mentions 177 detained, more than 138,000 checks. The scale is very large," Rogulska said.
According to her, 43 of those detained were placed in juvenile education centers or detention facilities for children. She did not specify what charges the detainees face, explaining that this would become clear after the investigations are completed.
In recent days, a wave of knife attacks on schools has swept across Poland. On Saturday, a 21-year-old woman attacked three young people near a school in central Warsaw. A 17-year-old girl, a 17-year-old boy and a 24-year-old man suffered knife wounds.
Earlier, it was reported that seven people were injured after a knife attack at a school in the Polish town of Ostrołęka. Among the wounded were students and a female teacher.
At a school in the village of Leszydół-Nowiny, a student attacked a cleaning woman with a knife. One of the injured died.