Spanish police arrest student after ‘teacher killed with crossbow’

Spanish police said on Monday they have detained a boy, who is under 14 years of age, for the suspected killing of a male teacher and the wounding of several others at a school in Barcelona.

However, police spokesmen would not confirm whether the unidentified boy was a student at the school in a working class Barcelona neighbourhood where the attack took place soon after the school day started.

Though spokesmen confirmed that the teacher was killed with a weapon that had a blade, they would not say what type was used. Spanish National Television and other media outlets reported that the boy was carrying a knife and a crossbow.

Two other teachers and two students were also said to have suffered minor injuries in the attack.

The attack took place at a public high school for students aged 12-16. After the attack, parents and students gathered outside the school in stunned silence, hugging each other.