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‘Barricade the doors’: Pupil describes school lockdown terror as boy killed – ITV News

Sixth former Divine said: “I went outside and I saw three year 11s shouting, ‘someone got stabbed, come here’ to a teacher. I didn’t believe it at first so I went outside to see what was going on.” He said he saw a body on the ground. Despite a major emergency services response, the boy died at the scene.”I ran upstairs to the sixth form area and said ‘there’s a lockdown, there’s a lockdown, someone’s got stabbed’,” Divine said. “And then all the teachers started taking people to classrooms. I was really really scared, I didn’t believe it at first, but I saw what I saw… the staff were scared – they didn’t know what to do but then they started saying ‘go into classrooms, lock the doors, shut the blinds, barricade the doors’ because they didn’t know if the person with the knife was on the loose or was trying to get other people as well.” Divine’s brother, Leon, was at home when he was called by his brother. He said: “It doesn’t feel real, it feels like America – but this is Sheffield.”