A French primary schoolteacher has been stabbed to death in front of her pupils on the last day of term by one of their mothers in an attack described by President François Hollande as an "abominable drama".
The woman entered the school in the sleepy southwestern town of Albi with a knife and stabbed 34-year-old Fabienne Terral-Calmès in her classroom as pupils arrived at the start of the school day, officials said.
Paramedics tried to save Ms Terral-Calmès, who is the mother of two small girls, but she died from multiple stab wounds around two hours after the assault.
Her attacker fled the scene but was arrested a short time later in her home. It was not immediately clear if the attacker’s own child was one of the pupils who witnessed the murder at the Edouard Herriot school, which has round 300 pupils aged from three to 11.
The horrific attack came just over two years after a French Islamist gunman killed three Jewish children and a rabbi in front of a school in the nearby city of Toulouse.
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