WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish police said on Wednesday they had detained a man after he killed one person with an axe in an attack at Warsaw University.
“Police have detained a man who entered the University of Warsaw campus. One person died, another was taken to hospital with injuries,” Warsaw Police said in a statement on X.
They said the incident occurred at around 6:40 p.m. (1640 GMT), when the man attacked people on the campus with an axe, adding that the detainee was a 22-year-old Polish citizen.
Private broadcaster Polsat News reported that a woman’s severed head and an axe had been found at the university.
A spokesperson for the district prosecutor’s office declined to comment on whether a severed head had been found.
The spokesperson said that a female administrative employee of the university had been killed at the scene and a security guard was injured and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
He said that the attacker had entered an auditorium at the unniversity.
(Reporting by Karol Badohal and Alan Charlish; Editing by Gareth Jones and Nick Zieminski)
