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Panic-stricken parents have been reunited with their children at a school gates after two female teachers and a pupil were stabbed by a teenage schoolgirl.
The 1800-pupil school in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, was put in lockdown after the girl allegedly lashed out with a butterfly knife and a 'Code Red' was announced over the speaker system.
Children were told to lock themselves inside classrooms and keep their heads down until police arrived.
A Year Nine pupil was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and taken away in handcuffs for questioning, it is understood. The injuries of the three victims are not life-threatening, Dyfed-Powys Police said.
Luke Poole, a family member of two students at the school, said his relative had to lock himself into a room to avoid the stabbings.
'My sister and cousin are in the school. My cousin texted me that someone has been stabbed. I come and check it out to make sure everything's okay, and my cousin said that he's in a locked room,' he told the BBC.
'I'm just waiting for my sister and him to get out now. I feel worried, I think everyone's a bit shocked as well.'
Police speak to worried parents outside Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Wales after classrooms were put in 'lockdown' following the incident
One worried parent said officers would be speaking to classrooms individually before lifting the lockdown
One concerned parent told LBC: 'If I'm honest I don't feel safe sending him tomorrow to school, but that's obviously a discussion I'll have with him this evening.
'It's a very frightening situation to be in for everyone.'
A frightened pupil said: 'It was breaktime, and I was in the IT class. I walk out, and this pupil tells me there's been a stabbing. At first I didn't believe her but a few moments after that I hear Code Red, and I've never heard that before.'
They added: 'There was an instant rush of adrenaline, and instinct, so I just thought it would be best to jump the gate. I thought as quick as I could.'
Earlier hundreds rushed to Ysgol Dyffryn Aman's school gates with their sons and daughters locked inside for several hours.
Coaches lined the streets outside to take those home whose loved ones unable to come pick them up.
They tearfully embraced their children at around 3.20pm as they walked out of the school gates.
The small community was left shocked by the alleged stabbing which is understood to have injured two female teachers and a pupil.
The school was placed on 'code red' and students were not released from lockdown until officers had spoken to classrooms individually, one parent said.
The schoolgirl was arrested and police are not looking for anyone else in relation to the emergency situation which has now been 'contained'.
One parent said: 'This is a quiet area
