Two teenage boys from St. Francis Xavier Secondary School have been arrested after a 15-year-old male student was stabbed on school property Wednesday morning.

The victim was taken to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries, paramedics say.

Only one suspect was identified at first. He was described by police as a teenaged boy wearing a black sweater and red polo shirt. He fled the scene after the altercation, and is still at large. Peel Regional Police confirmed he is a student at the school and that the suspect and the victim knew each other.

The two teenagers in police custody were arrested at the scene, but their exact role in the stabbing is not being released.

The incident happened in the school, during class time, but it is not known if the teens were in a classroom, said Bruce Campbell, general manager of communications and community relations with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.

During a midday briefing with reporters at the scene, Const. Bally Saini called the incident “isolated.”

Saini said she didn’t know if the weapon involved had been recovered.

She said officers are speaking to witnesses, canvassing the neighbourhood and reviewing surveillance footage of the first suspect’s retreat from the scene.

Saini also said police know the name of the person they’re looking for.

Police say they were called to the school, on Bristol Road W. in Mississauga, just after 11 a.m.

St. Francis was placed in lockdown while police investigated, but the school was deemed to be safe by 3 p.m.

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