Teacher stabbed to death by pupil in France

BBC reported that a high school student has reportedly stabbed a Spanish teacher to death in a school in the French town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

Local prosecutor Jerome Bourrier has confirmed the attack to news agency AFP, with local media saying the incident took place in a class on Wednesday (22) morning.

Authorities have confirmed that police are on the scene with the local prosecutor and that the student has been arrested.The teacher was in her fifties and died of cardiac arrest when emergency services arrived on the scene, local media said.

French newspaper Sud Ouest said the attacker entered the classroom while the Spanish teacher was giving a class and attacked her. The French education minister was on his way to Saint-Jean-de-Luz.