Student taken into custody after three stabbed in Canada high school

Police were called to school in Bedford, Nova Scotia, on Monday morning and found three people with stab wounds

Canadian police have taken a student into custody after three people were stabbed at a high school in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

Police said they were called about a weapons complaint at Charles P Allen high school in Bedford, about 20km (12.4 miles) north-west of downtown Halifax, around 9.30am on Monday. Officers reached the school and took one student into custody and found three people with stab wounds.