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VANCOUVER - A hold-and-secure was put in place at Nanaimo District Secondary school Monday morning after an altercation between “several youths” in which a knife was produced, Nanaimo RCMP say.
A teacher called 911 to report the melee between several students and one non-student, where “a large knife was seen.”
No one was injured during the incident, and a teacher intervened before it could escalate any further.
The suspect fled, and the school was put under hold-and-secure because his whereabouts were unknown.
The school was under hold-and-secure, wherein the doors of a school are locked and students remain in their classrooms, for just under 15 minutes around 11 a.m.
After about half an hour, police found the 15-year-old suspect nearby and arrested him without incident.