Police in the main Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod said Tuesday they apprehended an eighth-grade student thought of stabbing 2 classmates on school grounds.The victims, both 8th graders, were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the local news outlet NN.ru.The thought stabber initially fled the scene and concealed in the woods before being jailed, NN.ru reported.
Law enforcement sources and schoolmates mentioned by reporters stated the teenager had actually supposedly been bullied by his victims and brought a knife to school to exact revenge.Students were left, and the school was shuttered hours after the attack, NN.ru reported.The Nizhny Novgorod area prosecutors workplace said it released a preliminary examination into the event and the conditions at the school that might have contributed to the attack.Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously associated the increase in school attacks to foreign influences, particularly from the United States, and has actually tightened up gun control laws in response.Authorities have likewise sought to strengthen school safety procedures following a series of deadly school shootings and knife attacks over the last few years.