Qld: Boy dies in schoolyard stabbing

By Nick Birrell
Published February 15, 2010

stpats BRISBANE - A 12-year-old boy has died after a schoolyard stabbing in Brisbane, in what the school's headmaster has described ...

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Qld: Boy dies in schoolyard stabbing

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