Officers of the Maldives Police Service have been posted outside schools in capital city Malé after a series of violent incidents took place in them this week.
In response to a stabbing on Wednesday, the institution had also dispatched a number of officers to near schools at the times that parents are known to gather every day during the end of sessions.
These officers are clad in reinforced stab armour and are now patrolling and standing guard at these areas in teams.
Wednesday’s stab victim is a 14-year-old student at Dharumavanthu School, who had also received wounds to his head and a had broken fingers. He is a member of the under-16 national football team.
Media reports attest to his family saying that his wounds had been the result of having been attacked by a group of no less than five men.
On Tuesday, two assailants entered Thaajuddeen School and attacked a 10th grade student while he was sitting on a bench after school. The assailants, one of whom was a student at the school and involved in a fight that occurred there earlier according to some news outlets, reportedly attacked him with a pair of scissors.
He had only recieved some head injuries and was treated at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital. As a result of these consecutive incidents of violence in schools, the capacity of authorities -- the police and the Education Ministry -- to assure safety has been called into question.
