The Spanish language teacher died from a knife wound received from a school student in the resort city of Saint-Jan-de-Luz in the south-west of France, not far from the Spanish border, BBC reports.
The country’s authorities confirmed that the attack occurred in a private Catholic lyceum, named after Thomas Aquinas. The teenager went into class during the Spanish language lesson and attacked the teacher, having hit the woman with a knife in the chest several times. The teacher was in fifty. The doctors who arrived at the scene tried to save the victim, but to no avail: the woman died of cardiac arrest. The student was arrested.
According to some reports, the 16-year-old lyceum student suffered from a nervous disorder and was registered in the psychological care service. The version of the attack is not considered.