{"id":110039,"date":"2015-04-20T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=110039"},"modified":"2015-04-20T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:20:30","slug":"pupil-kills-teacher-with-crossbow-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=110039","title":{"rendered":"Pupil kills teacher &#8216;with crossbow&#8217; in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A student armed with a crossbow has killed a teacher at a school in Barcelona, Spain, local media say.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, reportedly a 13-year-old boy, has been arrested. His motive is unclear. Police have not confirmed the weapon used or whether he was a pupil at the Instituto Joan Foster.<\/p>\n<p>At least four other people were injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher killed was protecting another during the incident, El Mundo newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to Spanish media reports, the boy, said to be also armed with a knife, arrived at a class on Monday morning when he injured a teacher and her daughter, who was a student of hers.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing screams, a male teacher who was there as a substitute entered the classroom and was killed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape full-width has-caption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/media\/images\/82430000\/jpg\/_82430664_82430663.jpg\" alt=\"People stand outside a high school in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, April 20, 2015, where a minor has been taken into custody\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">Anxious people have been gathering outside the school in Barcelona<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape full-width has-caption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/media\/images\/82430000\/jpg\/_82430668_026839088-1.jpg\" alt=\"Emergency service members attend students at the Joan Fuste Institue in Barcelona on April 20, 2015\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">At least four people were injured in the attack: three pupils and one teacher<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, tweeted that he was appalled by the incident and has pledged his support for those affected.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s ANPE teachers union says it is the first documented case of a pupil killing a teacher in the country.<\/p>\n<p>If the attacker is confirmed as a 13-year-old, he would not face charges as the age of criminal responsibility in Spain is 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student armed with a crossbow has killed a teacher at a school in Barcelona, Spain, local media say. The suspect, reportedly a 13-year-old boy, has been arrested. His motive is unclear. Police have not confirmed the weapon used or whether he was a pupil at the Instituto Joan Foster. At least four other people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":110040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-110039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}