ARRAS (France), Oct 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A teacher has been killed and two people seriously injured in a knife attack at a school in France.
The attack happened at Gambetta high school in the northern city of Arras at about 11 local time.
The attacker has been arrested and is now in custody.
Visiting the school, President Emmanuel Macron called on French people to stay “united” in the face of the attack, to “not give in to terror or let anything divide us”.
The man killed was a French language teacher. Those injured were another teacher and a security guard.
Macron said the teacher had “come forward to protect others and had without doubt saved many lives”.
The attacker, named as 20-year-old Russian national Mohamed Mogouchkov, is of Chechen origin and known to the security services for his involvement with extremism, according to police.
The French anti-terror prosecutor’s office says it has opened an investigation following the attack for “murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise”.
News channel BFMTV has reported that the brother of the attacker has also been apprehended by police.
Police say the situation is now under control.
The attack comes nearly three years since the murder and beheading of another teacher, Samuel Paty, at his school outside Paris.
The perpetrator of that attack, 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee, was shot dead by police shortly afterwards. — NNN-AGENCIES
