A student stabbed a teacher to death at a school in Saint-Jean-de-Loup, France.
According to the local newspaper, after the incident, the students ran away in panic.
The dead teacher was 50 years old, the stabbing incident happened in a Roman Catholic school.
According to local media, the police have arrested the killer student who told police officers that he heard voices instructing him to kill the teacher.
Government spokesman Olivier Veran said that the attacker is 16 years old.
The local prosecutor expressed doubt that the young suspect had planned the attack in advance.
Two students who were in the class at the time of the killing told the news agency that during the lesson the attacker got up and went to the door, turned around and stabbed the teacher.
Education Minister Pap Nadaye said that a minute’s silence will be observed in all schools on Thursday.
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