Teacher stabbed at Avondale College - Police Statement

A 17-year-old student has been arrested after a teacher was stabbed in the back at Auckland's Avondale College this morning.

Inspector Cornell Kluessien said the male teacher was standing at a whiteboard in a classroom when he was attacked with a knife.

It is understood the Caucasian teacher was taking a Japanese class and was wounded just below the shoulder about 11.40am.

Police arrested an international student at a Blockhouse Bay address about an hour after the stabbing.

They said an associate of the alleged offender was also helping with inquiries.

A St John Ambulance spokesman said a man in his early fifties had been transported to Auckland hospital with serious injuries.

Inspector Earle McIntosh said the teacher's injuries were not life threatening.

A scene examination of the classroom is under way.

One reader emailed nzherald.co.nz to say that her daughter was a student at the school and had been locked in the college's squash courts while police searched for teacher's attacker.

A brother of a student at the College said students have been threatened with expulsion if they talk to reporters.

Avondale College principal Brent Lewis has been contacted for comment but has so far not returned phone calls.

A large number of police cars were seen driving down the Northwestern Motorway by readers of the Herald.

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