Student Attacks 4 With Bat at Australian University

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A student was detained after assaulting his teacher and three of his fellow students with a baseball bat on Friday in a classroom at the Australian National University, police said. Shortly after 9 a.m., the student stood up from his seat armed with a bat and approached the teacher at the front of the classroom, the Australian Federal Police said. Other students in the class intervened and tried to restrain the attacker, but he assaulted four people, including the teacher. They were hospitalized with serious but non-life threatening injuries, including broken bones. Police were called to the school and took the assailant into custody, Police Detective Superintendent Ben Cartwright told reporters. Cartwright praised the "incredible bravery on behalf of those students to protect the lecturer."  During the assault, one student managed to take the bat away from the attacker and run away with it, Cartwright said. The attacker, an 18-year-old man, had no other weapons on him, Cartwright said.  He was not on the radar of police or intelligence agencies, and his motivation is unknown. He has not yet been charged over the attack and police have not released his name. Max Claessens, an 18-year-old student whose friend was inside the classroom, said his friend told him that the attacker waited until the class had settled in before he suddenly pulled a cricket or baseball bat out of his bag and began hitting people. The attacker had been a...
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