A 16-year-old student was stabbed by a fellow student in a school near Milan on Tuesday, part of a growing wave of violence in Italian schools that has included the stabbing of a teacher by a student, also near Milan, on Monday.
The student stabbed at San Donato Milanese was taken to hospital in cod red, the highest danger condition.
He was said to have suffered a major haemorrhage after being stabbed in the thigh.
Meanwhile the 17-year-old student who stabbed the teacher in the back at Varese Monday, slightly injuring her, was said to have acted in a fit of pique at a bad mark, local sources said Tuesday.
Despite her slight injury, the family of the 57-year-old teacher, Sara Campiglio, told reporters: "he wanted to kill her, and he could do it again".
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