School attack 'scene out of America' - student eyewitness

(see related) (ANSA) - ROME, MAY 29 - A student eyewitness to Monday's knife attack against a teacher at a school near Milan described the incident as a 'scene out of America'.
    "When I realized that we were evacuating and one of our classmates was thought to be armed with a gun, I thought, 'so it happens here too, not just in America," said the student representative at the school in Abbiategrasso where a 16-year-old student stabbed and injured 52-year-old Elisabetta Condò before turning a fake gun against the class.
    Another eyewitness said the assailant "hit the teacher from behind, in the shoulder, in the arm, without screaming, without saying anything".
    "He was not agitated, he seemed to have no emotions.
    "Then I saw him raise a gun as the teacher was being escorted out of the room, and I immediately ran away along with everyone else," said the classmate.
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