Keep Your Eyes On This Story April 7, 2008
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AFP:
Students hurt as gang attacks Australian school: police
Students and a teacher were treated for minor injuries Monday after five young men armed with baseball bats and a machete invaded a high school in Sydney, police said.
Merrylands High School in west Sydney’s went into “lockdown” with pupils confined to their classes as the intruders assaulted students, smashed windows and damaged rooms before police arrived and arrested them.
“Police were called to the high school on Sherwood Road following reports a number of males had entered the school grounds,” a police spokeswoman said.
“They allegedly damaged a number of classrooms (and) a number of students received minor injuries.
“Some were assaulted by the group and others received injuries from the flying glass.”
The spokeswoman said she could not comment on whether the five males were students, former students, or unrelated to the school.
Or what race they were. Because this was a “spectacular” school attack, these students might be white, but because it was a gang of five, they could just as well be non-white, especially Middle Eastern.
There was no immediate word on their motives.
The Sydney Morning Herald speculates that it is revenge, in which case the students are or were students.
