Teacher ‘killed and several injured’ in knife attack at France high school
A teacher has been killed in a knife attack at a high school in France, the country’s interior minister has said. The attack took place at the Gambetta secondary school in the town of Arras in northern France on Friday at around 11am, local media has reported. A teacher is reported dead and several other injured. One pupil told outlet La Voix du Nord: “We were leaving class to go to the canteen when we saw the guy with two knives attacking the teacher, who had blood on him. He tried to calm him down and protect us. “He told us to leave, but we didn’t really understand, so we ran and others went back upstairs.” A post on X, formerly Twitter, French interior minister Gérald Darmanin said: “A police operation took place at the Gambetta high school in Arras. The perpetrator was arrested by the police.” A man has been arrested by police. French media reported that pupils are being kept in classrooms, while other schools in the town have also been sealed off. This is a breaking news story - updates to come Read More Police around world brace for days of pro-Palestinian protests AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa French police probe ‘poisoning’ of journalist who denounced Putin’s war live on TV
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