Police in Poland have found no connection between attacks on schools

Polish police have not yet found a link between the attacks on schools, which left more than a dozen people injured and one dead.

Polish Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration Marcin Kierwiński said that an analysis of the seized data carriers did not confirm the information about the connection of the attacks with the “Internet challenge.”

WARSAW, October 9 - RIA Novosti. Polish police have not yet found a link between the attacks on schools, which injured more than a dozen people and killed one, Polish Interior and Administration Minister Marcin Kierwiński told reporters.

The police previously announced that they were checking information that a series of attacks by teenagers armed with knives in educational institutions could be connected with some kind of “Internet challenge.”

“At the moment, as a result of the analysis of seized data carriers, the information about the challenge on the network is not confirmed. The police will continue to monitor movements on the network. But today there is no information that these incidents are connected,” Kerwinski said.

On Thursday, an attack with a knife was reported at a school in the village of Leschidul-Noviny. Three people were injured, including the director and a cleaning lady. Later, one of the wounded, a school cleaner, died. The assailant, who was detained, turned out to be a 17-year-old high school graduate.