A high school teacher was stabbed in the back on the street by a young man in Bassano del Grappa, in the province of Vicenza , after the man refused to offer him a cigarette.
The 62-year-old professor is now in the operating room for a delicate surgical procedure . The knife blade was lodged in his spine , stopping just millimeters from the aorta and spinal cord.
The search for the attacker is underway.
(Unioneonline/vl)











