Girl, 13, is killed after javelin thrown during PE lesson goes through her eye
A 13-year-old Russian girl has died after being struck in the head by a spear during an athletics training session at school.
The freak incident occurred on May 3 in the village of Priblizhnaya, a rural locality in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
A 17-year-old boy is said to have launched a training spear while the coach was absent from the sports field, hitting the girl in the eye, investigators said.
The unnamed schoolgirl was taken to hospital and remained in intensive care for four days but died four days later.
The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case and is examining whether safety protocols were followed at the school.
Officials are also assessing the actions of the teacher who left the students unsupervised.
The regional prosecutor’s office has initiated its own review into the quality of services provided by the sports school.
The teen’s death comes after an Australian high school student was impaled by a javelin in a freak accident during a PE lesson back in 2020.
A 13-year-old girl was killed after being struck in the head by a spear during an athletics training session at school. Stock image shows a male javelin thrower
Photo shows a street in the village of Priblizhnaya in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, where the school is located
The 12-year-old boy pierced his groin when he tripped over the razor-sharp gym equipment at Saint Stephen’s College in the northern Gold Coast suburb of Coomera.
The boy still had parts of the javelin inside his body when he arrived at the Gold Coast University Hospital after fire crews had broken off the ends with cutting equipment.
The boy is believed to have fallen on top of the javelin after he tried to jump over it while it was stuck in the ground, The Courier-Mail reported.
The same year in Australia, a man in his 60s was impaled by a javelin after he fell three metres through a roof.
The horrific incident happened in Gladstone, Queensland.
Emergency crews worked to remove the javelin from the man’s leg and rushed him to Gladstone hospital to treat the gruesome injury.
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