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Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­demned the lat­est in­ci­dent of school vi­o­lence, in which five stu­dents were im­pli­cat­ed in a bru­tal and pre­med­i­tat­ed at­tack on a school­mate. The as­sault, which oc­curred on Tues­day, 3 June 2025, took place in­side a school bath­room and was filmed by by­standers.

The vic­tim, a teenage girl, re­mains hos­pi­talised with se­vere in­juries, in­clud­ing a frac­tured nose, bro­ken tooth, blood clots in the eyes, and mul­ti­ple bruis­es across her body. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, video footage cap­tured three girls am­bush­ing and beat­ing the vic­tim, while oth­er stu­dents stood by and filmed. One at­tack­er was seen de­liv­er­ing two force­ful kicks to the vic­tim’s face, leav­ing her bleed­ing. Clumps of her hair were lat­er found on the bath­room floor.

“School vi­o­lence, an­oth­er is­sue again, yet again,” the Prime Min­is­ter re­marked at the Post Cab­i­net News Con­fer­ence.