Pupil arrested after teacher stabbed to death at school in France

Woman attacked in classroom at Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin school near Bordeaux

Police have arrested a 16-year-old pupil after a teacher was stabbed to death at a secondary school in south-west France.

The attack at the Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin Catholic private school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, near Bordeaux, is believed to have happened in a classroom when the teenager pulled a knife from his bag at about 10am on Wednesday and stabbed the 52-year-old woman, according to the local newspaper La Dépêche.