A teacher at a school in southwest has been stabbed to death by a pupil in front of a packed class, prosecutors have confirmed.
The Spanish teacher, 50, was giving the class earlier today at the Roman Catholic Saint-Thomas d’Aquin private school in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz near Bordeaux when a 16-year-old pupil burst in and attacked her with a knife.
She was given emergency aid at the scene, but Bayonne prosecutor Jerome Bourrier told AFP she died of her wounds.
‘A Spanish lesson was taking place, when the pupil launched a frenzied attack on the teacher,’ said an investigating source who added the attack took place around 10am local time.
‘She was stabbed through the chest,’ they said.
