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Five suspects were arrested after a gang of masked men threatened students at a Lancashire, England, college on Monday afternoon, Mirror Online reported.

One 17-year-old student suffered an injury to his arm and was transferred to a local hospital. BBC reported that the wound was "not serious."

he gang, wielding knives, walked onto college grounds as students were leaving just prior to 4:00p.m.

The suspects scattered as police approached the scene.

Three were arrested in a nearby car, one on foot and another held after police stopped a car on the M55, BBC noted.