Girls Shot in School Crossbow Attack

Thursday, April 3rd, 2003

Girls Shot in School Crossbow Attack reports on a horrifying, but gun-free, Columbine-esque attack in Australia:

Two Australian teenage girls were shot and wounded with a crossbow at their school on Thursday, with the arrow passing through the chest of one of the victims and into the legs of the other, an ambulance official said.

The girls were attacked by a teenage boy who was tackled as he then tried to light a petrol bomb, a witness told a Sydney radio station.

“One young female was shot in the left chest, the arrow exiting her left shoulder,” the official told Reuters.

“The arrow then went into the thigh of the other female and then into her other leg. Both legs were impaled by the arrow.”

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