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Updated at 3:32 p.m., Friday, March 7, 2008

Konawaena High School assault prompts two arrests

Advertiser Staff

HILO, Hawai'i — Two 16-year-old boys have been charged with felony assault after an attack at Konawaena High School on the Big Island yesterday left a student with a broken facial bone.

Police were called to the school because of a fight at shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, and were told a 15-year-old boy had been attacked by the two 16-year-old youths.

The 15-year old suffered a fractured eye orbital, and was treated at Kona Community Hospital for the injury.

Police charged the two 16-year-olds with second-degree assault, and released them to their parents.