One schoolboy fatally stabbed another while running with a 10cm-long knife in northern Vietnam, a local police officer said on Thursday.
Nguyen Van Tuyen (13) was running downstairs holding the knife used for pencil sharpening.
He then collided with Dinh Van Son (14), who was running upstairs, Bui The Phong, the police chief of Kim Anh commune, said from Hai Duong province.
”It was just an accident,” Phong said. ”The boys had no argument.”
The knife plunged into Son’s chest in the collision and he died en route to hospital, Phong said.
Nguyen Van Nho, the headmaster of the secondary school, said the school was very sorry about Wednesday’s accident.
”We have to be more careful and more closely control the students’ study tools and any dangerous items they bring into school,” he said. — Sapa-DPA