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FB claim of Katherine High stabbing denied by Northern Territory Government

The NT Government has moved quickly to dispel claims that a student has been stabbed at a Territory High School. Find out where.

Katherine High School. Picture: Alex Treacy
Katherine High School. Picture: Alex Treacy

The NT Government has moved quickly to dispel claims that a student has been stabbed at Katherine High School.

It follows a Facebook post that spread like wildfire raising alarm among the community.

“Just letting the community know there was a child stabbed at KHS today,” the post read.

A spokesman for Education Minister Jo Hersey, who is also the Member for Katherine, said the claims have been investigated and neither police or the Education Department had a stabbing reported to them.

“We investigated immediately and as far as we can ascertain there was a fight in a male toilet block but definitely no stabbing,” the spokesman said.

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