Three people were injured in a stabbing incident at a further education college in Warsaw on Saturday, marking the third attack on a school in Poland within a week. The attack occurred around 12:30 PM local time when a 21-year-old woman used a "dangerous object" to assault a 17-year-old woman, according to Jakub Filipiak, a spokesman for Warsaw police. The suspect also injured two other individuals, aged 17 and 24. One person was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while the other two did not require hospitalization.
The police did not disclose the name of the educational institution, which was identified by National Wyborcza newspaper as TEB Edukacja, a post-secondary education school where the suspect was a student. The attack follows the detention of 76 individuals across Poland and checks at nearly 50,000 schools as part of efforts to prevent further violence after two earlier school attacks this week.
Earlier incidents included a stabbing at a vocational school in the Mazovian province on Wednesday, where a 19-year-old student injured nine people before fleeing and being arrested. The following day, a 15-year-old student killed a school custodian and injured two others in a knife attack at his former school in the same province. Both attacks were carried out by Polish nationals, raising concerns about a new phenomenon of school violence among minors in the country.
In response to the attacks, many schools increased security measures, with some suspending classes and parents choosing to keep their children at home. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski emphasized the importance of youth safety, stating, "There will be no compromise here." The government has not found evidence of an internet challenge promoting school attacks and has not confirmed any links between the incidents.