A man armed with a machete or an ax attacked children and adults at a school Monday and then fled, police said.
Chris Capewell of West Midlands Ambulance Service said three adults and four children from St. Luke's Infant School were taken to hospitals "with varying degrees of stab wounds.""As I understand it, one child received severe lacerations to the right arm, and the others were stab wounds to the face and neck," she told Sky TV news. She had no immediate report on their condition.
West Midlands police initially reported that six children and a woman teacher at the school were injured.
Details were sketchy but police said the man apparently went inside the school in Wolverhampton, 60 miles northwest of London, about 3:15 p.m.
On March 13, a man armed with four handguns barged into a school in Dunblane, Scotland, and killed 16 children and a teacher before killing himself.