Teaching assistant killed in French school knife attack
The student was taken into custody after the attack in Nogent in the Haute-Marne département of eastern France, the local préfecture added.
The 31-year-old teaching assistant was seriously injured, and died a short time later, emergency workers at the scene confirmed.
Education Minister Elisabeth Borne said on X she would go to the Françoise Dolto
collège
in Nogent "to support the entire school community and the police".
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France has in recent years seen a series of attacks on teachers and pupils by other schoolchildren.
In March, French police started random searches for knives and other weapons concealed in bags at and around schools.
At the end of April, after a fatal attack at a school in Nantes, the education ministry reported that 958 random bag checks in schools had led to the seizure of 94 knives.
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