Teen girl arrested after two teachers and pupil are stabbed at Welsh school

Police have confirmed that a teenage girl has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed at a Welsh school.

Emergency services attended Amman Valley School, also known as Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, in Carmarthenshire, south-west Wales, just after 11.20am on Wednesday.

Superintendent Ross Evans, of Dyfed-Powys Police, said: “Three people – two teachers and a teenage pupil – have been taken to hospital with stab wounds. The family members of all those injured have been informed.

“A teenage girl has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and currently remains in police custody.”

He said the incident had concluded and pupils had left the school, which was placed into lockdown following the incident.

Earlier today, two helicopters were seen circling the school, after officers and ambulance crews raced to the scene. Worried parents have reported a large police presence around the school and eyewitnesses said two air ambulances landed close by.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary James Cleverly both expressed their shock at their events.

Mr Sunak said: "Shocked at the news emerging from Ammanford today. I want to thank the police and emergency services for their ongoing response and my thoughts are with all those affected."

Many of the parents who had gathered outside the school tearfully hugged their children after they walked out of the school from 3.20pm.

Jonathan Edwards, the Independent MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, said he could not recall anything like the incident happening in Wales before.

He told Channel 5 News: “There has been a stabbing of one of the students, and then teachers have tried to intervene and unfortunately also some of the teachers have been stabbed.”

Mr Edwards added: “I believe two teachers have been sent to hospital, one has been released with injuries to the arm and the hand, and I believe the other teacher unfortunately has been transferred … to Cardiff, to the Heath Hospital, and that situation is far more serious.

“It is a huge shock, isn’t it really? I’d never think that anything like this could possibly happen in Carmarthenshire, in the Amman Valley where I am from, I can’t recall anything like this ever happening in Wales before.

“It is the crossing of a major line really, isn’t it? That a weapon has been taken into school and been used.”

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