One person has been killed and two others seriously injured in a knife attack at a school in the town of Arras.
Local police say a man armed with a knife killed a teacher and left two other people wounded in a high school in the town of almost 41,000 people on Friday morning.
The incident took place at the Gambetta high school, which is located in the town centre.
Map showing location of Arras in northeast France
France’s interior minister Gérald Darmanin wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the attacked had been arrested by police.
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