Two Students Injured In Castries Chopping Incidents

Two teenagers were nursing injuries at the OKEU Hospital Wednesday after separate chopping incidents in Castries. According to reports, at about 3:45 pm, a thirteen-year-old student came under attack by a group of young males on Manoel Street. The attackers had knives and machetes. Minutes later, a nineteen-year-old Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC) student also came under attack by a group of young males with knives and machetes. It was not immediately apparent whether the same attackers were involved. The Principal of the Ave Maria Girls’ Primary School, Valerie St. Helene-Henry, was in her schoolyard when the incident involving the SALCC student unfolded. “A group of young males, about eight or more, were running after either one or two others, I am not sure how many they were chasing,” St. Helene-Henry recalled. She said the pursuers had knives and machetes in plain view of the public, including other students in the capital. St. Helene-Henry said after closing in; the pursuers attacked a SALCC student. “It was really scary,” she told St. Lucia Times. The Ave Maria Girls’ Primary School Principal said she shouted to her school watchman to close the gate. “By that time, other persons were running up;...