2 FLORIDA GIRLS PLANNED TO KILL STUDENTS: POLICE

Police in Bartow, Fla., say they arrested two middle school girls Tuesday who brought butcher knives and a pizza cutter to school and told detectives that they had been planning to stab more than a dozen students to death.

“They told us they were Satan worshippers,” Bartow Police Chief Joe Hall said at a news conference. “They did make comments that they were willing to drink blood and possibly eat flesh.”

The two girls, aged 11 and 12, were enrolled in sixth and seventh grade, respectively, at Bartow Middle School.

Hall said that there had been rumours Monday that there would be “issues” at the middle school, and a student had informed a teacher that “something bad” was going to happen.