A teacher has been killed in a knife attack at a secondary school in France, the country’s interior minister has said.
The attack took place at City School Gambetta-Carnot in the town of Arras in northern France on Friday at around 11am, report local media which say the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the incident.
A teacher is reported dead and several others are 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.”
French media report that a man entered the school with a knife before the attack took place, with two teachers said to have been stabbed.
Pupils are still being kept in their classrooms, while other schools in the town have also been sealed off.
At 11.58am, local time, French police announced the situation was under control, confirming an arrest had been made.
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