French police secure the area near the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides secondary school after one student was killed and other students injured in a school stabbing, in Nantes, France, 24 April 2025;
Credit: Reuters/Stephane Mahe
NANTES, France (Reuters) - A fifteen-year-old boy killed a fellow pupil and wounded three others in a stabbing attack at a secondary school in the western French city of Nantes on Thursday 24 April 2025 before he was overpowered by teachers, police said.
BFM TV reported that the student who died was a girl and that the three injured students were boys. Police did not confirm the age or gender of the victims.
Teaching staff subdued the attacker at the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides, a private Catholic school, before law enforcement officials arrived, a police spokesperson said.
She said there was nothing to indicate a terrorist motive.
