A pupil in Meru injured by colleague in a knife attack over food
A 14-year old schoolgirl is nursing serious cuts after she was attacked by another pupil with a knife, in a row over food at Kisimani village, Igembe South, Meru County.
The Standard Eight pupil at Kisimani Primary School had gone to draw water when her attacker emerged from a bush and slashed her on the head, mouth and nose.
The assailant who is said to be a girl in Grade Seven then took off, leaving Gloria bleeding profusely from the cuts that split the mouth and the nose and one on the head.