Woman killed, security guard seriously injured in axe attack at Polish university

May 8 (UPI) -- A pistillate worker astatine Warsaw University successful Poland was killed and a 2nd idiosyncratic was earnestly injured by an axe-wielding intruder. Police said they had detained a 22-year-old antheral who is Polish.

The onslaught connected the field of the assemblage successful the superior occurred astatine astir 6:40 p.m. section clip Wednesday evening, the Warsaw Police Department said successful a post connected X.

"A antheral entered the University of Warsaw Campus and attacked the radical determination with an axe. He is simply a 22-year-old Polish citizen. One idiosyncratic died, the different was taken to infirmary with superior injuries.

"Prosecutors and constabulary are moving astatine the scene," said police.

A section authoritative told the BBC that the fishy was a instrumentality pupil successful his 3rd twelvemonth astatine the assemblage who was not from Warsaw.

The assemblage said in a statement that the victim, a subordinate of staff, was attacked successful the main field gathering and that a assemblage information defender was earnestly injured erstwhile helium attempted to intervene.

Saying the University of Warsaw assemblage had been "struck by a unspeakable tragedy," assemblage officials delcared a time of mourning Thursday, canceled each classes and ordered information beryllium stepped up.

"Our colleague, a UW employee, was brutally murdered. The perpetrator has been caught," Alojzy Nowak, the university's rector, said successful a statement.

"We explicit our large sorrow and sympathy to the household and loved ones. A subordinate of assemblage information was besides earnestly injured," helium said.

Local reports said the pistillate was a 53-year-old porter astatine the assemblage who died astatine the country and the antheral who was injured was aged 39.

Justice Minister Adam Bodnar, who was attending an lawsuit successful an adjacent lecture theater, said 1 of his officers rushed to the assistance of the 2 victims and engaged with the attacker.

Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski said it was a "macabre attack" that had near him shocked.

"This brutal onslaught indispensable beryllium met with terrible punishment," helium wrote on societal media.

The assemblage besides canceled its yearly two-day Juwenalia euphony festival which had been owed to get underway Friday.

The university, Poland's largest higher-education institution, employs more than 8,000 staff and has 36,300 students, much than 3,600 of them planetary students and doctoral candidates, according to its website.