At least one person has been killed and three others seriously injured in a knife attack at a school in the western French city of Nantes, police say.
According to police sources, several people were stabbed by a fellow student at the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides High School in Doulon.
The motive for the attack is not immediately clear.
The alleged attacker was arrested at the scene after being restrained by a member of the teaching staff.
The French radio station Europe1 said the attacker allegedly stabbed a female student after an argument on the second floor of the high school before stabbing three others on the first floor.
Education Minister Elisabeth Borne said on X that she is heading to the school with Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau to show ’”solidarity with victims and the school community.”
An official at the school, which is part of a complex also housing a primary and middle school, would not comment on what happened, saying the school is concentrating on caring for the students who were on campus at the time.
Fatal attacks are relatively rare in French schools.
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