Machete-wielding student, 13, kills teacher

A Spanish boy armed with a crossbow and a machete killed a substitute teacher and wounded four people at his school in Barcelona yesterday, police said.

The unidentified 13-year-old was detained by police as a suspect after the attack that also saw two other teachers and two students injured. Authorities said he will not face criminal charges because he is under age 14.

The attack, which took place just after 9.30am, brought terror to the high school in a working-class neighborhood of Spain’s second-largest city. School attacks are extremely rare in Spain.