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School to shut after teacher ‘assaulted by pupil brandishing weapon’
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Milford Haven Comprehensive will be shut on Friday after the incident
Welsh school to shut after teacher taken to hospital and pupil arrested on suspicion of attempted murder
- A school that went into lockdown following reports of a teacher being assaulted by a pupil “brandishing a weapon” will close on Friday, February 6
- Police were called and Milford Haven Comprehensive went into lockdown at the end of the school day just before 3.30pm on Thursday February 5.
- Dyfed Powys Police said a teacher was reportedly assaulted by a pupil “brandishing a weapon”
- A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and is in police custody
- Superintendent Chris Neve of Dyfed-Powys Police said: “We can confirm police are at Milford Haven Comprehensive School, following a report of the assault of a teacher by a pupil brandishing a weapon at the school at approx. 3.20pm.”
- The teacher’s injury is not a stab injury. The teacher was taken by ambulance to hospital and received medical treatment for their injuries.
- All pupils were safe and when the lockdown ended most were said to have gone straight home with all after school activities cancelled while police remained on site
- The school will be shut on Friday February 6, the local education authority said
- Parents described how their children were “panicking” during the lockdown. One said the first they heard about it was when their child contacted them
- Parents said that as it was the end of the school day some children were “locked in” inside the school during the lockdown and others were just outside the site.
- Milford Haven School governor and Pembrokeshire County Councillor Alan Dennison, said that the incident showed the school’s lockdown policy worked. “We have a lockdown policy and it worked,” he said
- First Minister Eluned Morgan and Henry Tufnell, Labour MP for Mid and South Pembrokeshire expressed concern and said their thoughts were with the teacher and community
- Teaching union Nasuwt put out a strong statement saying violence has no place in schools. The union has warned about increasing levels of bad behaviour and violence in schools
- Some parents said they were scared to send their children to school following the incident
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