(Left to right) Liz Hopkin and Fiona Elias were named as the victims of the attack in Ammanford (Picture: Rex)
Two teachers who were stabbed in a school playground in South Wales have been named and pictured for the first time today.
Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin were identified as the two victims of the knife attack at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford at the end of morning break on Wednesday.
A major incident was declared at the school – also known locally as Amman Valley School.
Classrooms were put under lockdown, with pupils only leaving around four hours later.
Drama and Welsh teacher Ms Elias, who is the head of year seven, and Ms Hopkin, who works with special needs students, were stabbed while trying to save a child who was being attacked.
Jonathan Edwards, MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, told Channel 5 News that the two were taken to hospital.
One of them has since been released with injuries to the arm and hand, while the other has been transferred to Cardiff as the ‘situation is far more serious’.
The colleagues are said to be ‘lucky to be alive’, thanks to a ‘hero’ teacher, Darrel Campbell, who is said to have intervened and disarmed a girl before emergency services arrived.
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