Daijiworld Media Network - Tirunelveli

Tirunelveli, Sep 25: A shocking act of violence disrupted a government-aided higher secondary school near Valliyoor on Thursday, when a classroom argument between two Class 9 students escalated into a brutal machete attack.

Police reports reveal the incident stemmed from a verbal altercation between two teenage hostel residents the previous day. The conflict reportedly began when a 14-year-old student from Sankarankovil, belonging to a Scheduled Caste, allegedly made derogatory remarks about the father of another boy from an intermediate caste.

Though teachers and classmates managed to calm the situation on Wednesday, tensions resurfaced the following morning. In a disturbing turn, the boy from the intermediate caste arrived at school armed with a

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