FIVE Calabar High School students, allegedly involved in Wednesday’s stabbing of a security guard on the school’s compound are now on the run, the police said yesterday.

Meanwhile, the injured guard, Damion Redley, 20, employed to Atlas Protection Limited was last night still hospitalised in a serious but stable condition.

“When I visited him (Redley) this morning (Thursday) he was still in pain,” said the security company’s investigator, Lloyd Lindsay. “He’s lucky to be alive.”

It was not clear yesterday why Redley was attacked. However, on Wednesday, a manager at the security company told the Observer that the Constant Spring police were investigating a report that Redley was attacked shortly after seeing one of the schoolboys with an illegal firearm while he was on patrol.

He said Redley, who was branded an ‘informer’ by the schoolboys was stabbed 13 times in the back, head and neck then left lying on the ground for some time before being taken to the hospital by a teacher at the school.

That group of boys, according to students, tagged the “Dons” at Calabar, are feared by their schoolmates, and are frequently involved in activities that would not be sanctioned by the school.

“They are bad,” a student told the Observer. “They smoke weed (marijuana), carry weapons to school and are involved in everything that is bad.”

Yesterday, neither the school’s principal, Lloyd Bryan, nor its two vice-principals could be reached for comment.

The teachers, though obviously concerned, remain tightlipped on the incident except for one female teacher who sighed “It doesn’t even make sense I comment on the incident”.

However, for one seventh-grade boy, the incident painted a dark picture on his school.

“Many people respected this school, but with this incident I am sure they are going to think differently,” he told the Observer.