A 14-year-old schoolboy was held for stabbing two fellow students during a brawl near their school in Yan Ta Khao district of Trang on Thursday evening. The victims sustained serious wounds.
The incident occurred on Trang-Palian Road in tambon Yan Ta Khao nearby a secondary school, said Pol Capt Suwit Suwanrat, deputy investigation chief at Yan Ta Khao police station.
Upon reaching the scene, police found a pool of blood. The two injured students had already been taken to Yan Ta Khao Hospital.
Both students, aged 14 and in Mathayom Suksa 2 (Grade 8), suffered critical injuries. The first victim was stabbed in the right breast, penetrating the lung, while the second victim was stabbed in the left breast near the heart. Due to their conditions, doctors transferred them to Trang Hospital.
According to police investigations, the victims and four fellow students walked from the school on Thursday evening and encountered a group of five students, also Grade 8 from the same school. The two groups had a confrontation near the entrance of a restaurant, approximately 100 meters away from the school's gate.
A brawl ensued. One student from the rival group pulled out a sharp-pointed knife, stabbing the first victim until he fell to the ground. The second victim rushed to help but was also stabbed by the same attacker. After the attack, the assailant and others from his group fled on motorcycles.
Police later arrested the attacker, a 14-year-old Grade 8 student, at a house in tambon Thung Krabue in the same district. A blood-stained knife found in a ditch at an oil palm plantation was also seized.
Pol Col Poonsak Saengsae, chief of Yan Ta Khao police station, said the attacker admitted to stabbing the two students.
The attacker was detained for questioning. A psychologist, a prosecutor and other officials also joined the investigation.
