Teacher stabbed to death in attack at French school

A man of Chechen origin stabbed to death a teacher and severely wounded two other adults on Friday at a school in northeastern France, with President Emmanuel Macron denoucing an act of"Islamist terror".

Macron said a second attack had been foiled elsewhere in France by security forces on Friday, but did not give details.He is from Russia's mainly Muslim southern Caucasus region of Chechnya and was already on a French national register known as"Fiche S" as a potential security threat, a police source told AFP, and under electronic and physical surveillance by France's domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI.

A large security cordon was set up around the school, where the police, firefighters and emergency services were deployed, AFP journalists said. A philosophy teacher who witnessed the attack, Martin Dousseau, described a moment of panic during break-time, when the schoolchildren found themselves face-to-face with the armed man.

Speaking in Arras, he reaffirmed his message from that address for the French to"stand shoulder to shoulder" and"stay united".

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