The Trans-Baikal Investigative Committee is investigating an attack by a schoolboy with a knife on his peer. The Investigative Committee has announced an investigation due to a "conflict between minors" in the village of Smolenka near Chita. "The regional media reported a conflict between minors, as a result of which one of the youths was injured," the department noted. A 15-year-old ninth-grade student attacked his peer with a knife and injured him, the mother of one of the students told Chita. Ru. According to her, a whole crowd of schoolchildren attacked the boy in the street, and at one point he pulled out an object that looked like a gun. The victim may have been a victim of bullying at school.