Teacher killed and two others hurt in stabbing at French school

The attack took place at Gambetta high school in the city of Arras, some 115 miles north of Paris. Picture: Ludovic Marin/AP

A man armed with a knife has killed a teacher and wounded another teacher and a security guard at a high school in northern France — an attack being investigated as potential terrorism.

French President Emmanuel Macron said police later thwarted an “attempted attack” in another French region after the teacher’s fatal stabbing.