STABBED AT SCHOOL

Now primary school boy's family is accusing skool of a cover-up

- BY KIM SWARTZ

CASE: WCED's Bronagh Hammond

A 13-YEAR-OLD was left seriously injured after he was allegedly stabbed by fellow pupils at Alpha Primary School in Durbanville, with his family claiming the wound was just two centimetres from his heart.

The minor's ouma, Christina Hendricks, told the Daily Voice that the incident happened during interval on 23 February.

Hendricks said: "He and some other friends were playing with a ball. Then five children came and attacked him. They threw stones at him and hit him. Another boy, who is taller than him, choked him, and he fell on the ground.

"They stabbed him in the arm, and another boy stabbed him in the chest.

"The school called me, and when I arrived, my grandson had a bandage on."