A teacher injured during a knife attack at a Manchester secondary school has been praised for protecting students after intervening when violence erupted inside a classroom.

Maysum Abdullah, 27, was stabbed while trying to protect pupils at Co-op Academy Manchester as the school was locked down amid reports of a pupil with a knife

Maysum Abdullah, 27, suffered injuries to his neck and hand after allegedly intervening when a teenage girl armed with a knife attacked fellow students.