Two teenagers have been arrested after a 17-year-old boy was ‘attacked with a sword’ close to a school on Friday morning.
Armed police launched a manhunt and five schools were placed into lockdown following reports of an altercation in Chalford Road, close to St Peter’s High School in Tuffley, Gloucester, shortly after 8.50am.
On Saturday, a 19-year-old man from Gloucester was arrested overnight on suspicion of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray, Gloucestershire Police said.
An 18-year-old man, also from Gloucester, handed himself into police this morning, and has been arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray.
Both teenagers remain in
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