Kevon Felmine

Two stu­dents of Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, were tak­en to hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day af­ter both were wound­ed dur­ing a bul­ly­ing in­ci­dent on the school's com­pound.Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, a 14-year-old-year-old stu­dent from Gas­par­il­lo up to last night was ward­ed in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, await­ing surgery.School sources said the in­ci­dent took place in view of oth­er stu­dents at the school's Carib Street com­pound, who were record­ing it on their cell­phones. Some were in­cit­ing the vi­o­lence while oth­ers were shout­ing: "Don't kill him."Po­lice said that short­ly af­ter 7 am, both stu­dents were in­volved in an ar­gu­ment at the school bas­ket­ball court where the 14-year-old stu­dent ac­cused the 15-year-old stu­dent of plac­ing a cock­roach in his school bag last Fri­day, know­ing that he has a pho­bia for the in­sect.

The younger stu­dent al­leged­ly had a blade and at­tacked the 15-year-old, cut­ting him on the right side of his back and chest. Af­ter see­ing the blood, he be­came fright­ened and slit his own wrist, fore­arms and the side of his neck, po­lice said.A re­lease from the me­dia re­la­tions of­fi­cer of the Catholic Me­dia Ser­vices Ltd Ver­non Khelawan, said both stu­dents re­mained hos­pi­talised.

He said: "Ac­cord­ing to act­ing school prin­ci­pal Dex­ter Mitchell, a Form Four stu­dent was brought to him suf­fer­ing from what ap­peared to be stab wounds."He was tak­en im­me­di­ate­ly to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where it was as­cer­tained that he sus­tained a stab wound to the back and a su­per­fi­cial wound to the chest. The stu­dent iden­ti­fied an­oth­er stu­dent as re­spon­si­ble for his in­juries.

"The oth­er stu­dent was found at the back of the school's bas­ket­ball court bleed­ing from an ap­par­ent self-in­flict­ed wound. He was al­so rushed to the hos­pi­tal and was sched­uled for surgery to close the wound, which led to him los­ing a great deal of blood."Mon­sign­or Chris­t­ian Pereira, parish priest and chap­lain of the col­lege, has vis­it­ed the school and coun­selling ses­sions have been held for stu­dents and staff."The stab­bing come sev­en months af­ter Ch­agua­nas teenag­er Re­nal­do Dixon was stabbed to death by an­oth­er stu­dent at the Wa­ter­loo Sec­ondary School.

Snr Supt Ce­cil San­tana and San Fer­nan­do Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.