RENNES, France: A 15-year-old at a French school on Friday stabbed and gravely wounded a female schoolmate over a “personal dispute”, officials said, in the latest knife attack in the country.
The teenager stabbed the girl, also 15, in a stairwell of the high school in the western town of Ancenis, gravely wounding her in the stomach, a local prosecutor said, adding his office had opened a probe into “attempted murder”.
The suspect “was quickly subdued and disarmed by the headmaster”, said Antoine Leroy, the prosecutor in the nearby city of Nantes.
The teenager, who had previously showed suicidal tendencies, “may have had quite a strong friendship” with the victim, Leroy said.
