RENNES, France – A school student in western France on April 10 stabbed a 15-year-old female classmate with a kitchen knife over a “personal dispute”, gravely wounding her, local officials said.
Teachers in the village of Ancenis isolated the attacker, before police detained him, the regional prefect’s office said, without providing further details on the victim’s state.
The teenage boy stabbed the girl in a school stairwell, gravely wounding her in the abdomen.
Police put the school on lockdown as they responded.
Around 700 pupils were confined to classrooms and 150 to the gym, according to a source close following the case.
Several school stabbings have rocked France in recent months. AFP
