JOHANNESBURG - A MATRIC pupil wielding a “ninja-type” sword and professing to be a Satanist killed a schoolboy, injured another and seriously injured two staff members.

The 18-year-old went on the rampage at the Nic Diederichs Technical High School in Krugersdorp before assembly and stabbed a 16-year-old Grade 9 pupil in the neck. The victim was declared dead on the scene.

Krugersdorp councillor Alex Raubenheimer said pupils at the scene told him the boy was “high on drugs” and “dressed like Joey Jordison”, a drummer of the band Slipknot.

“He said Satan told him to kill the children,” said Raubenheimer.

Police Captain Jacob Raboroko said: “The matric pupil was carrying a ninja-type sword and was wearing a balaclava over his face and had smeared his face with black paint. After stabbing the 16-year-old pupil he stabbed a gardener in the face and hit another on the back.”

The suspect then stabbed another pupil in the face. “Another pupil who saw this happening suffered an asthma attack,” said Capt Raboroko.

Police said the injured gardeners, the pupil who was stabbed in the face and the one who suffered an asthma attack were all taken to hospital.

Parents also confirmed that at least one girl who witnessed the slaying had to be sedated and was traumatised.

The attacker’s younger brother at the school grabbed the sword after the boy had thrown it to the ground.

After the stabbing teachers took the boy to the principal’s office. Capt Raboroko said the boy did not resist arrest.

“Wat nou, meneer? (What now, sir?),” the suspect asked the school principal after the attacks.

“He was very calm when we arrested him in the staff room,” said Capt Raboroko, declining to comment on reports that the boy was “high on drugs”.

Community leader Pierre Eksteen, who is in charge of a school support network for children, told reporters outside the deserted school grounds that “Satanic music was probably the cause of the attack”.

Teacher union Sadtu has described the ongoing violent incidents in schools as a reflection of how violent society has become. It called on government to admit there was a problem and to discuss solutions.

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A reliable source said Harmse had brought four masks, similar to those worn by the heavy metal band SLIPKNOT, in his school bag.

Apparently he was also carrying three swords.

The source said one of the masks was white, similar to that of SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison.

Another mask was a clown mask, similar to that of SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn Crahan, and the third mask was a gasmask as worn by the DJ, Sid Wilson.

During the attack Harmse apparently wore the mask that is similar to the one belonging to the lead singer Corey Taylor.
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