BREAKING: Boy, 13, slits classmate's throat in Russian school rampage with knife and hammer

A teenage boy has gone on a rampage at a school in Russia, slitting a classmate's throat and wounding at least four others.

A girl was rushed to hospital in a serious condition following the attack at the school in Chelyabinsk, near the Ural Mountains, after reports the boy entered the school and began "randomly beating up his peers". The girl, named as Valeria E, 13, lost consciousness after she was hit on the head by a hammer and had her throat slit in the disturbing incident.

A teacher and three other students were also injured in the attack. Biology teacher Nina Shoshina, 57, was wounded as she tried to overpower the boy and protect her children at school number 68.

The suspect, a boy named only as Roman G, was detained on site and arrested. Another girl was also undergoing emergency surgery after she was injured in the attack.

Ms Shoshina said from hospital that the attacker “ran into the Biology room five minutes before the end of the lesson” armed with a hammer and pistol. “He didn’t say anything, he just screamed,” she said.

“I immediately started screaming to stop him. I ran up to him, but the girls were a little faster. He hit both of them on the head with a hammer, then I got hit on the arm, shoulder and head.”

A grandmother of one of the wounded girls said: “He went into the classroom, sat there for a while, came out with a gun, an axe, a knife - and this is what happened.” She added: “How did they let him into the school? I don't understand. It's just horrible.”

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