One dead and two injured in second Polish school attack in two days as PM blames video games for 'cult of violence'

One person has died and two were injured after a 15-year-old former pupil carried out a knife attack at a Polish primary school on Thursday, police said.It comes just a day after a 19-year-old wounded 10 people including himself in an attack at another school.Authorities said a 37-year-old woman who worked as a caretaker had died in today's attack, which took place at around 8am local time in Leszczydol-Nowiny, in Wyszkow County northeast of Warsaw.'She was the first person attacked with a sharp object,' police spokesperson Katarzyna Kucharska told private broadcaster TVN24. Head teacher Krzysztof Ochmanski said he had heard a scream and run into the corridor.'He wounded me with the blade of a rather long knife - he had three knives on him - and hit me with the handle,' he told the public broadcaster Polskie Radio RDC. 'By then, I had managed to restrain him.'Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka said the lives of the two injured people were not in danger. Local residents wait next to the scene where a 15-year-old fatally stabbed the caretaker of his former school A drone view shows the school where a deadly attack by a 15-year-old former pupil took place A woman embraces a child, as emergency services (not pictured) work at the site of a deadly attack at a school'The attacker was a former pupil of this primary school and is currently a student at a vocational school,' she said. 'At this moment, we do not know the motives. He was carrying three knives and attacked the caretaker.'An air ambulance was seen flying away from the school, where a small crowd had gathered. The father of one child, waiting outside the school, said pupils had not yet been allowed to leave, but were safe.Footage on the state news channel TVP Info showed what appeared to be the attacker being handcuffed and put into a police van.A government spokesperson said Prime Minister Donald Tusk had called an emergency meeting.Poland's prime minister said Thursday that social media and video games are behind a 'cult of violence' that has led to recent knife attacks by adolescents at school.Teenagers have fallen 'under the influence of the internet, video games, and content that promotes pure violence', Tusk said at a press conference. 'Unfortunately, it has also reached Poland.'Inspector Katarzyna Nowak, director of communications for national police, said serious offenders were becoming younger across Europe.'Over the past few months in Poland, we have seen arrests of teenagers who were preparing to carry out attacks... So, this is indeed a problem we face, and one we must acknowledge,' she told TVP Info.Interior minister Marcin Kierwinski said that in a separate incident in Sierpc in north-central Poland on Wednesday police detained a 17-year-old who had spoken about plans to do 'something dangerous' on school grounds.'Teachers notified the police, who intervened and found two knives in his possession,' Kierwinski told a press conference. 'Data recovered from electronic devices revealed online searches regarding how to orchestrate such a violent event.'Ten people were injured in a knife attack at a school in Ostroleka in northeastern Poland on Wednesday, with police detaining the 19-year-old suspect, who was among those hurt, shortly after the incident.The attack took place about 11am local time at the Vocational School Complex No. 4 in Ostroleka, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Warsaw, police said. Police and other first responders work at the scene where a 15-year-old fatally stabbed the caretaker of his former school A child walks next to fire fighters working at the site of a deadly attack at a school Authorities did not provide any information about the suspected motive, or details about the weapon.Five students, two teachers and two passersby were injured, regional Gov. Mariusz Frankowski said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, but one person was seriously wounded and some victims were evacuated by helicopter to a hospital.Authorities identified the suspect only as Jakub Z., in line with Polish privacy laws.He was arrested on a riverbank less than 1 kilometer (a half mile) from the school after fleeing the scene, according to police. He was wounded at the time of his arrest in what prosecutors said was a result of 'self-mutilation.' The young man was taken to a hospital.