Po­lice have iden­ti­fied the sus­pect who stabbed three Pe­nal Sec­ondary School stu­dents dur­ing a bazaar at Par­vati Girls’ Hin­du Col­lege in Debe on Sat­ur­day.

How­ev­er, the sus­pect is yet to be ar­rest­ed. Yes­ter­day, class­es re­sumed at the school as usu­al.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion Mar­tin Lum Kin told Guardian Me­dia that a team from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s Stu­dent Sup­port Ser­vices ar­rived at the school and pro­vid­ed coun­selling to stu­dents and staff who wit­nessed the at­tack.

A source said the prin­ci­pal ad­dressed staff and stu­dents, as­sur­ing them that the mat­ter was in the hands of the po­lice.

The at­tack hap­pened on the school’s com­pound in the dis­co area around 4.30 pm Sat­ur­day. Po­lice said the sus­pect, who at­tends Pe­nal Sec­ondary School, hid the penknife un­der the tongue of his shoes and con­front­ed three school­mates on the dance floor, ac­cus­ing them of be­ing re­spon­si­ble for his sus­pen­sion.

He then pulled out a penknife and stabbed them.

Two vic­tims, aged 16 and 17, both stu­dents of Pe­nal Sec­ondary School, were tak­en to San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment. Po­lice said the 16-year-old re­ceived stitch­es, while the 17-year-old may re­quire surgery.

The Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha Vi­jay Ma­haraj, un­der whose purview the Par­vati Girls’ school falls, said the event had a full com­ple­ment of se­cu­ri­ty, in­clu­sive of ten se­cu­ri­ty guards, six po­lice of­fi­cers, and elec­tron­ic scan­ners, but the sus­pect man­aged to evade de­tec­tion.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly said the min­istry will await the out­come of the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion be­fore de­cid­ing on fur­ther ac­tion.