Suspect, Vice-Principal Die in Slovak School Knife Attack

Police officers and forensic technicians wearing face masks work at the scene of a reported assault on staff at a school in Vrutky, Slovakia, on June 11, 2020. Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters

VRUTKY, Slovakia—Slovak police said they killed a 22-year-old man who attacked staff and pupils with a knife at a school on Thursday in an assault that left a vice-principal dead and four injured.

The police said two children and two adults were injured in the attack at an elementary school in the town of Vrutky, 140 miles northeast of the capital Bratislava.