Boy goes on rampage at Karnataka school, attacks sleeping students with bed rod; 1 dead

BALLARI: A boy attacked fellow students with a bed rod at a Gurukul residential school in Karnataka’s Ballari district late at night, leaving one student dead and several others injured, police said. According to Ballari police, the incident took place after dinner when the students were asleep in the hostel. The boy went on a rampage and attacked anyone he could find inside the dormitory, according to news agency ANI. In the assault, eight students were injured. One of them later died, while two others sustained serious injuries. Six other children were also hurt in the attack. All the injured students were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.