Teacher and students stabbed with metal ruler in western Sydney

Female teacher and male student are treated for stab wounds in hospital while female student is treated by paramedics at Bonnyrigg high school

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NSW police were called to Bonnyrigg high school just before the bell rang at 9am after a teacher and two students were stabbed with a metal ruler. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

A female teacher and two teenage students have been stabbed with a metal ruler at a western Sydney high school.

Paramedics were called to a reported stabbing at Bonnyrigg high school just before the bell rang at 9am on Thursday.

The teacher and students, a male and a female, were stabbed with a metal ruler and are in a stable condition, according to the radio station 2GB.

The teenagers have reportedly suffered stab wounds to their shoulders while the teacher, aged in her 40s, was stabbed in the back.

The teacher and male student have been taken to Liverpool hospital while the female student is being treated by paramedics at the school.

Police are on the scene and the Department of Education has been contacted.