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Two Arrested After 17-Year-Old Injured in Suspected Sword Attack in Gloucester

Police say a 17-year-old was wounded in an incident on Friday, which The Guardian reported as a suspected sword attack near a school in Gloucester.

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- Two people have been arrested after a 17-year-old was injured in an incident on Friday, according to BBC News. The outlet reported that police said the teenager suffered a wound "believed to have been caused by a sword", and its headline described the two arrested people as men.

The Guardian reported, in a story by Priya Bharadia, that the incident took place near a Catholic school in Gloucester. According to the newspaper, armed police attended the scene, which led to two nearby schools going into lockdown on Friday. Officers were called to Chalford Road, near St Peter's high school, in Tuffley, shortly after 8.50am on Friday.

The Guardian described the incident in its summary as a "suspected sword attack". BBC News described the wound as believed to have been caused by a sword, so the two outlets describe the weapon with differing degrees of certainty.

The outlets differ on the arrests. BBC News reported that two men were arrested, while The Guardian's summary said two teenagers had been arrested. The Guardian's summary also said that two men were involved, one of whom was in possession of a sword, but the available text ends before giving further details. Neither BBC News nor The Guardian, in the summaries available, gave a cause for the injury beyond the descriptions above or a condition for the teenager.

Sources: BBC News: Two men arrested after boy, 17, injured by sword; The Guardian: Two men arrested after boy injured in Gloucester sword attack.

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