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 confirmed the attack to news agency AFP,
with local media saying the incident took place in a class on Wednesday
morning.
Authorities have confirmed that police are on the scene with the local prosecutor.
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 is on his way to Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
