Cedros student, 15, stabbed during altercation with peers

A 15-year-old stu­dent of a sec­ondary school in Ce­dros was stabbed dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in­volv­ing stu­dents yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the in­ci­dent oc­curred around 9.30 a.m. when a po­lice of­fi­cer as­signed to the school ob­served groups of stu­dents run­ning to­wards a chain-link fence at the front of the com­pound.

The of­fi­cer, who was at­tached to the Po­lice Com­mu­ni­ty Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Unit, then no­ticed a com­mo­tion out­side the school in­volv­ing stu­dents who had ex­it­ed a PTSC bus near the pavil­ion. The of­fi­cer shout­ed at them to stop.

Mo­ments lat­er, two stu­dents en­tered the school com­pound and pro­ceed­ed to the prin­ci­pal’s of­fice. One of them, a Form Three stu­dent, was seen clutch­ing his ab­domen, with what ap­peared to be blood on his school uni­form.

Po­lice were alert­ed and the in­jured teenag­er was tak­en to the Ce­dros Health Cen­tre, where he was ex­am­ined be­fore be­ing trans­ferred by am­bu­lance to the Point Fortin Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for fur­ther treat­ment.

The stu­dent re­mained un­der ob­ser­va­tion at the hos­pi­tal.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent are on­go­ing.