French PM calls for crackdown on knife crime after fatal high school stabbing

Boy, 15, arrested after one child killed and three injured at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school in Nantes

The French prime minister, François Bayrou, has called for a crackdown on teenage knife crime after a high-school student stabbed four other children at his school, killing at least one and injuring the others before being arrested.

The 15-year-old reportedly attacked fellow students with a knife during lunch break on Thursday at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides secondary school in the city of Nantes on the Atlantic coast. The attack took place at around 12:30pm (11:30 BST), before teachers overpowered the boy. One female student was killed. At least one other student is in a critical condition in hospital.