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Plaid Cymru’s Adam Price – a former pupil at Amman Valley School – described the college as a “centre point for the whole community” and stated pupils and households have been “shocked and shaken”.

A bilingual complete faculty for pupils aged between 11 and 18, Amman Valley offers schooling to 1,450 faculty pupils, along with 270 sixth kind college students.

Cefin Campbell, the Senedd member for Mid and West Wales, stated there could be questions requested within the Welsh parliament about safety in faculties throughout Wales.

“Let’s hope it’s a one off, but you just don’t know the way the society has changed. We have to ask questions about the way we move forward,” he advised BBC Radio Wales.

“We certainly don’t want to go down the route of America but there are parts of the UK where bags are checked every day, there’s metal detectors, as well as random checks by police.

“None of us want to go down that road but we’ve just obviously got to ask questions. What lessons can we learn from this?”

The south-west Wales faculty went into lockdown after a “code red” alarm sounded via the PA system, throughout which college students and workers are stated to have hidden in lecture rooms – with one pupil reportedly vaulting the college fence to get to security.

The lockdown lasted round 4 hours between 11.20am and three.20pm, leading to a prolonged and anxious wait for fogeys who had been seen tearfully hugging their kids after they walked via the gates.

While on-line classes will proceed, the college will keep closed for in-person instructing on Friday, Carmarthenshire County Council has stated.

The faculty was additionally closed on Thursday as police continued their investigation.

The 13-year-old lady charged with tried homicide after two lecturers and a pupil had been stabbed at a college in south Wales will seem at court docket on Friday, the Crown Prosecution Service has stated.

Michael Cray, senior Crown prosecutor at CPS Cymru-Wales, stated: “A youth who cannot be named for legal reasons has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article on a school premises.

“The youth has been remanded in custody to appear before Llanelli Magistrates’ Court tomorrow on Friday April 26 .

“Criminal proceedings are active and the defendant has the right to a fair trial.

“It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.”

Speaking outdoors Amman Valley School on Thursday night, Superintendent Evans thanked medics for his or her “swift response” in serving to victims concerned within the incident.

He stated: “I would once again like to thank our colleagues at the Welsh Ambulance Service and Wales Air Ambulance Service for their swift response to this incident.

“As well as the NHS staff who treated those who were injured, the charitable organisations who are supporting those affected by this incident and the vigilant members of the public who reported their concerns to us.”

A teenage lady has been charged with three counts of tried homicide after three folks had been stabbed at Amman Valley School in Carmarthenshire.

A 15-year-old boy has additionally been arrested and stays in police custody on suspicion of constructing threats referencing the stabbing incident at Amman Valley, Dyded-Powys Police stated in a press release outdoors the college on Thursday night.

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A 13-year-old lady has been charged with three counts of tried homicide after two lecturers and a teenage pupil had been stabbed at Amman Valley School in Wales, Dyfed-Powys Police stated.