Archery club's teacher's arrow injures student

A 15-year-old Tokyo high school student was seriously injured in the head by an arrow that a teacher shot during club activities at the school, police said.

The student was injured on the left side of his head, but the injury is not life-threatening, the police said.

According to police, at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday, the 51-year-old female teacher at Igusa High School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, who is the assistant adviser of the Japanese archery club, fired a steel-tipped arrow at a target 28 meters away, but overshot the mark, hitting the student, who was walking five meters behind the target. The student is not a member of the archery club.

The teacher, who is ranked at the lowest grade in Japanese archery, was giving a demonstration at the time.