The Latest Breaking News from Arras

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Teachers at the Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras in northern France had twice reported Mohammed Mogouchkov to authorities when he was a student there. But he remained at the school and graduated, and on 13 October he stabbed to death a teacher, claiming allegiance to the Islamic State armed group. The…

Schools in France will start late and hold a minute's silence on Monday following a suspected terrorist attack on a high school in which one teacher was killed and two other staff were injured. Thousands of people gathered in northern France on Sunday to pay tribute to the victim, French…

Incident comes after teacher was stabbed to death in the northern town of Arras on Friday

France on Saturday said it will deploy 7,000 soldiers after declaring a top-level alert following the fatal stabbing of a teacher by a suspect of Chechen origin, who also severely wounded three others at a school.

A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected Islamic radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and critically wounded three other people Friday in northern France, authorities said.

France on Friday raised its security alert to the highest level after a man of Chechen origin stabbed a teacher to death and severely wounded two other adults at a school in the northern town of Arras in a knife attack that echoed the grisly slaying of a teacher in…

A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by the French security services over suspected radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and critically wounded two other people in northern France on Friday, authorities said.

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