French high school where teacher was killed Friday evacuated over bomb alert

ARRAS, France, Oct 16 (Reuters) – The high school in Arras, northern France, where a teacher was fatally stabbed on Friday was evacuated on Monday morning following a bomb alert, a Reuters photographer on site saw.

A police explosives expert team arrived on site.

Teachers and students of the Lycee Gambetta high school gathered in the courtyard of a building opposite their school, as civil protection personnel comforted them.

A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a French teacher and wounded two other people in an attack on Friday at Lycee Gambetta in an attack that President Emmanuel Macron condemned as « barbaric Islamic terrorism. »

France was put on its highest security alert following the attack.

Reporting by Pascal Rossignol; Writing by Ingrid Melander; Editing by Toby Chopra and Sudip Kar-Gupta;

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