Twenty Students Stabbed Outside High School

A suspect has been taken into custody after 20 students were stabbed at a high school near Pittsburgh.

Dan Stevens, emergency management spokesman at Westmoreland County, said four people were thought to have been seriously injured when a student with a knife stabbed or slashed others.

The attack took place at around 7.20am at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, around 15 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Several helicopters were seen flying injured people to nearby hospitals.

Dr Chris Kaufman, at Forbes Regional Medical Center, said two of the victims were undergoing surgery and another also suffered life-threatening injuries. They are expected to survive.

All three of them were stabbed in the torso, abdomen, chest, or back.

Mr Stevens said some of those injured suffered cuts and scrapes as they attempted to flee the scene.

Twelve victims have been sent to four different hospitals.

The school posted on its website: "A critical incident has occurred at the high school.

"All elementary schools are cancelled, the middle school and high school students are secure."

The suspect, a male student, was taken into custody and is being questioned.

The high school was locked down and students were kept there as officials double-checked the premises.

One student told the television WTAE he saw "students holding their stomachs, bleeding."

The student added they are not sure how the assailant was stopped, but a fire alarm was activated and "as soon as we heard the fire alarm was pulled we went outside".

Morris Hundley said his 14-year-old daughter Morriah called him in tears. He rushed to the school still wearing his slippers, hoping for more information.

"My first thoughts were I think we need to home school now that this has happened," he said.

"The words can't describe how I feel. I'm just thinking of the victims."

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