Europe / Poland · Conflict & Security

15-year-old kills school worker in Poland's second school attack in two days

Rank: 35
Running: 22h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 66
Regions: 5
Countries: 40
Languages: 26

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: RMF24, 8 Oct, 07:16 UTC.
Second country: Mexico, with El Sol de México.
Second region: Americas, with El Sol de México.
Fastest hour: +22 outlets from 8 Oct, 09:30 UTC.
Now: 66 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 40 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

12%14%64%

Africa 4 outlets · 2 countries · 6%
Americas 8 outlets · 6 countries · 12%
Asia-Pacific 9 outlets · 8 countries · 14%
Europe 42 outlets · 22 countries · 64%
Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 4%

First movers

RMF24 8 Oct, 07:16 UTC
El Sol de México +44m
Gazeta Wyborcza +53m
TVN24 +59m
News24 +1h 17m

Latest arrivals

Irish Independent 9 Oct, 04:30 UTC
Detik 8 Oct, 23:12 UTC
Fox News 8 Oct, 20:27 UTC
CTV News 8 Oct, 16:00 UTC
Shargh 8 Oct, 15:23 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 66 outlets in 40 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 66 outlets, 2 state-owned, 5 public-service, 59 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Ghana, South Africa. Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, United States. Asia-Pacific 8: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand. Europe 22: Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Iran, Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article RMF24, 8 Oct 2026, 07:16 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 07:40 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 04:30 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Europe, Poland. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged not hard news, unsure. Shown, because it is widely covered and the judgement was unsure. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 4.39, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged from 4 stories 15-year-old student kills one, wounds two in Polish school knife attack; Knife attack at school in Poland kills staff member; 15-year-old attacks school staff with knife in Poland; Polonia, 15enne entra in una scuola elementare con un coltello e uccide una donna. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

8 Oct 2026 7 33.66 65 39 65 39 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 07:40 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 04:30 UTC

Merged from 4 stories

Covered by 66 outlets

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Africa 4 outlets

Daily Maverick South Africa 8 Oct, 11:10 UTC
One dead, two injured in Poland’s second school attack in two days
MyJoyOnline Ghana 8 Oct, 11:02 UTC
Caretaker killed and two teachers injured in knife attack at Poland school
TimesLIVE South Africa 8 Oct, 10:06 UTC
One dead, two injured in Poland’s second school attack in two days
News24 South Africa 8 Oct, 08:32 UTC
News24 | One dead, two injured in Poland’s second school attack in two days

Americas 8 outlets

Fox News United States 8 Oct, 20:27 UTC
Teen wearing helmet camera kills worker at Polish school amid fears of copycat attacks
CTV News Canada 8 Oct, 16:00 UTC
15-year-old arrested after attack at Polish school that left 1 dead, 2 wounded
Diario Extra Costa Rica 8 Oct, 13:43 UTC
Menor mata a una persona y hiere a otras 2 en escuela de Polonia
Estadão Brazil 8 Oct, 11:17 UTC
Segundo ataque em escola na Polônia em dois dias mata funcionário e fere dois
CNN Brasil Brazil 8 Oct, 11:13 UTC
Polônia tem segundo ataque violento a escolas em dois dias
Infobae Argentina 8 Oct, 10:01 UTC
Muere una trabajadora de una escuela del este de Polonia en un nuevo ataque con arma blanca
Metrópoles Brazil 8 Oct, 09:50 UTC
Ataque em escola na Polônia deixa pelo menos um morto e dois feridos
El Sol de México Mexico 8 Oct, 08:00 UTC
Adolescente de 15 años mata a una persona y hiere a otras dos en escuela de Polonia

Asia-Pacific 9 outlets

Europe 42 outlets

Middle East 3 outlets

Shargh Iran 8 Oct, 15:23 UTC
دومین حمله به مدرسه در لهستان طی دو روز/ دولت جلسه اضطراری برگزار کرد
Anadolu Agency Turkey 8 Oct, 13:02 UTC
School employee killed in Poland’s second school attack in 2 days
Cumhuriyet Turkey 8 Oct, 12:33 UTC
Polonya'da iki günde ikinci okul saldırısı: Ölü ve yaralılar var