A student was wounded by gunfire inside a school in Argentina’s Neuquén province, two men died in road accidents in Bangladesh, a teenager was shot dead during a neighbourhood clash in central Bangladesh, and a 16-year-old was stabbed to death by a peer in Tehran, according to local authorities and medical sources. In Italy, a new podcast series has prompted a re-examination of the 2016 murder of Luca Varani, a case that continues to raise questions about motive and justice a decade later.

In the Patagonian city of Cutral Co, a male student brought a firearm into a classroom on an unspecified day this week. The provincial education council confirmed that staff and school authorities intervened, isolating the armed student and the weapon while alerting police. The family of the wounded boy told local media that he was sitting at his desk when he heard a sudden blast and felt a sharp pain in his arm; a bullet passed through his limb and injured a finger. The grandmother, who arrived at the school before the ambulance, said the family intends to file a formal complaint and urged a thorough investigation, alleging that this was not the first time a firearm had been linked to students at the institution. No official statement has been released on how the weapon entered the premises.

In Bangladesh, two separate road crashes on Wednesday morning claimed the lives of a 72-year-old pedestrian and a 50-year-old auto-rickshaw passenger. Highway police in Feni said a speeding motorcycle struck the pedestrian as he crossed the Dhaka-Chittagong highway; the rider fled and has not been detained. In the second incident, a tractor collided with an auto-rickshaw in Chhagalnaiya upazila, killing one passenger and injuring three others, including the victim’s son. The tractor driver also escaped. Meanwhile, in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila, a Tuesday-night clash between residents of two neighbourhoods over local dominance left an 18-year-old man dead from a gunshot wound to the jaw and at least ten others injured. Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds, which had blocked the Dhaka-Barishal highway for an hour and a half, and arrested 17 people. The victim’s mother demanded capital punishment for those responsible.

In Tehran, a 16-year-old boy was arrested after confessing to stabbing a peer to death during a street fight on Monday. According to Iranian media citing the accused’s interrogation, the two had a history of altercations dating back a year and a half, including a previous knife attack on the suspect. The suspect said he lost control after being kicked, threw a knife, and then stabbed the victim in the neck as he rose from the ground. The case has been referred to the juvenile court.

Viewed from Rome, the 2016 murder of 23-year-old Luca Varani is being revisited in a new podcast series a decade after the crime. Varani was tortured and struck more than 100 times with a hammer and knives by two older men, Manuel Foffo and Marco Prato, in an apartment in the capital. The killers, who said they wanted to know what it felt like to harm someone, were found fully criminally responsible by judges, who rejected defence arguments of drug- and alcohol-induced incapacity. Italian commentators note that the case, which initially sparked public debate about substance abuse, ultimately centred on the psychology of the perpetrators. No new judicial developments have been reported.