Teenager charged with aggravated unlawful wounding after incident at Perth high school
A 15-year-old girl has been charged with aggravated unlawful wounding after an incident involving a fellow student at Carine Senior High School in Perth's north. The 16-year-old boy is recovering in hospital after being allegedly attacked with what police described as an edged weapon, while the girl is also being treated in hospital. Police say she's due to face the Perth Children's court tomorrow.
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00:00 Classes had been underway for just over an hour when students started to hear something had gone wrong.
00:07 Boys in my class were like talking about it and at first I thought it wasn't real because the school had like evacuated us.
00:14 Police swarmed the campus.
00:16 When the bell went we went to go see where it was and there was cops everywhere and then there were cops over here that we saw
00:21 and then we kind of realised oh this is happening, this is real.
00:26 Police say a 16 year old boy was allegedly attacked with an edged weapon in one of the main teaching blocks.
00:32 A 15 year old girl was also hurt and both are in a stable condition with non-life threatening injuries.
00:38 The boy's family issued a statement saying nobody expects to go to school and then something like this happens.
00:44 They thanked the first responders and school staff who worked quickly and diligently to help their boy.
00:50 Parents had first heard something had happened through social media chat groups.
00:54 We're all worried and I've just said I'm heading down there now to see what's going on.
00:59 The school wasn't placed into lockdown but students were clearly shaken by what happened.
01:04 School's meant to be a safe place for us where we should learn and grow as people.
01:10 School's should be somewhere that's safe and there for our children to learn.
01:14 This must have been a very distressing incident for the students but also the teachers who had to respond.
01:19 I just want to acknowledge all their roles and our thoughts go out to everyone.
01:24 Police stressed it was a contained incident and there was no threat to the wider community.
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