A high school
student has stabbed a Spanish teacher to death in a school in the French town
of Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
French
government spokesperson Olivier Véran confirmed Wednesday's attack and said the
perpetrator was 16 years old.
Police attended
Saint-Thomas d'Aquin school with the local prosecutor, where the student was
arrested.
French newspaper
Sud Ouest said the attacker entered the classroom while the Spanish teacher was
giving a class and attacked her.
The teacher was
in her fifties and died of cardiac arrest after emergency services arrived at
the school, local media reported.
France's
Education Minister, Pap Ndiaye said in a tweet that his thoughts were with the
teacher's "family, colleagues and pupils".
He said he was
on his way to the school "straight away".
Local media reported the student may have been suffering from mental health issues. They said at this at this stage of the investigation there was no suggestion the incident was terror related.
Mr Véran said in
a press conference the government would support educators across the country in
the wake of the incident.
"I can
hardly imagine the trauma that this represents," he said.
By Antoinette Radford || BBC News
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