A student at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides High School in Nantes, France, stabbed four other students during a lunch break on Thursday. One student was killed, and three others were injured before teachers subdued the attacker. The student was arrested, and authorities are investigating the circumstances of the rare and fatal school attack.
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