A 16-year-old teenager stabbed to death the principal of a school in the city of Colonia Independenciain the department of Guairá, 172 kilometers from Asunción, the capital of ParaguayThe Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) reported this on Tuesday.

“This tragic event happened this afternoon when the director, who also She is a professor in the subject of mathematics, she was just developing the subject and in full swing, a freshman high school student has, without saying a word, attempted to take his teacher’s life, a stabbing weaponthe MEC’s ​​director of legal advice, Juan Manuel Arce, told reporters.

The MEC will provide psychological support to all students who were present at the murder and to the local community “This news has generated a strong impact, not only for the Ministry, but for the whole country,” said Arce. The victim, identified as Sofía Rodríguez de Cristaldo, 44, was transferred from San Gervasio School to a nearby hospital, where she died as a result of her injuries, the national police reported.

The student, who had fled the education center, was located by the police in the city of Villarica45 kilometers from the event site, a National Police spokesperson told the NPY channel. At the time of his arrest, two bladed weapons were found in his backpack. “presumably used to commit the deed,” he explained.

This situation “had never happened before in the area,” Professor Nelson González, a colleague of the victim, assured La Nación newspaper. “He was one of the best students, behavior-wise,” González added.

Rodríguez de Cristaldo was an exemplary professional”, “lady and mother of the family”and which, in González’s words, was part of one of the “emblematic educational institutions of the area”.