The management of Accra Academy Senior High School has officially addressed the viral video of a student assaulting his colleagues with a machete, confirming that the perpetrator has been handed over to the police for further investigation.

The footage, which surfaced on social media, shows a student brutally flogging two others with a machete.

The victims, first-year students Samuel Ussher, Kingsford Quayson, Stephen Oteng, and Dominic Awuku Adjei, were allegedly attacked by final-year students Haleem Jibril, Ahmed Dauda, and Richard Ninsin, along with first-year student Shadad Aliu.

According to the school's management, preliminary investigations revealed that the machete was brought from home, not taken from school premises.