A Calabar High School fan was yesterday slashed with a knife on the arm after he was reportedly involved in a fracas with a Kingston College student outside the National Stadium in Kingston.

Police said the incident was the most serious of several which kept officers busy on the penultimate day of ISSA/ Grace Kennedy Boy’s and Girl’s Athletic Championships.

A female vendor who said she had to run for cover while clinging to a bunch of school flags she had on sale, said the incident started after a group of Calabar students attacked a KC student who was on his way to the stadium.

“Is them rush the KC youth but them never know that is over Swallowfield [community] there so him come from. The youth go for him family now and the man come and cut the youth on his hand,” said the woman.

“Is about 10 of them a keep up the foolishness out here from morning. I don’t know why them don’t go home ’cause they don’t come to support anybody; them just bring pure destruction,” she added.

Yesterday, police officers had to move quickly to prevent the incident from escalating as the youngster, dressed in khaki uniform and a Calabar flag tied around his heavily bleeding left arm, rushed for support from his friends.

“You don’t see that the boy them cut me, the boy them just cut me a while ago,” the youngster related angrily to a group of Calabar supporters.

The huge crowd immediately rushed in the direction of where the incident took place, but they were stopped by police on motorcycles.

Several people who had gathered, including the injured boy, were searched before he was escorted into a police service vehicle and taken to hospital.

“This is the only real big flare up we have had since the start of the day and it was quickly brought under control by the officers as you can see,” said Inspector Wesley Christie of the Stadium Police Station.

“…We deployed the necessary number of officers based on the crowd expectation, and we have managed to keep things under some level of control. Tomorrow (today) we expect a bigger crowd and as such the number of police officers on duty will have to be increased,” said Christie.