Motive still unclear in US school stabbing

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published April 11, 2014

MURRYSVILLE, Pennsylvania, April 10 - Police are still trying to determine why a 16-year-old boy stabbed 21 students and a security ...

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