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00:00 The French prime minister has put the country on its highest state of counter-terrorism
00:05 alert after an assailant fatally stabbed a teacher and seriously wounded two others.
00:10 Witnesses say the knife man shouted "Allah Akbar", or "God is greatest", during the
00:15 attack at a school in Arras, northern France.
00:18 He is now in custody.
00:20 The attack emergency level has been used in previous counter-terror cases.
00:25 The alert can trigger extra security deployments and public warnings.
00:29 The attack at Gambetta High School in the northern city, at about 11 o'clock local
00:34 time (9 o'clock GMT), came amid rising tensions in France's sizeable Muslim and Jewish communities,
00:41 due to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
00:45 Interior Minister G. A. Tilda copyright trolled Darman and said there was no doubt a link
00:50 between the Arras attack and the Israel-Hamas conflict.
00:54 The attacker, named as 20-year-old Russian national Mohamed Mogouchkov, is of Chechen
00:59 origin and known to the security services for his involvement with Islamist extremism,
01:05 according to police.
01:07 As a former pupil at the school, he alarmed teachers with his extremist language, reports
01:13 say.
01:14 Police also arrested several members of the assailant's family - a brother aged 17, his
01:19 mother, a sister and an uncle.
01:22 Prime Minister Elizabeth Barne took the urgent step after a security meeting with President
01:26 Emmanuel Macron.
01:28 Earlier Mr Macron visited the school and condemned the barbarity of Islamist terrorism.
01:33 He called on French people to stay united in the face of the attack, to not give in
01:38 to terror or let anything divide us.
01:41 The man killed was a French-language teacher, stabbed in the throat and chest.
01:45 Another teacher and a security guard were seriously wounded and are now in hospital.
01:50 The security guard is critically ill, with multiple knife wounds.
01:54 A third person, a cleaner, was less seriously hurt in the attack, and no children were hurt.
02:01 Mr Macron said the teacher who died had come forward to protect others and without doubt
02:06 saved many lives.
02:08 Martin Daws, a teacher who witnessed the attack, told AFP news agency of a moment of panic
02:14 during break time, when the school children found themselves face to face with the armed
02:19 man.
02:20 "I attacked canteen staff.
02:21 I wanted to go down to intervene, he turned to me, chased me and asked me if I was a history
02:27 and geography teacher," Mr Dawes said.
02:30 "We barricaded ourselves in, then the police arrived and immobilised him."
02:35 The attack comes nearly three years since the murder and beheading of another teacher,
02:40 Samuel Pady, at his school outside Paris.
02:43 The perpetrator of that attack, 18-year-old Abdullah Kansrov, a Russian Muslim refugee,
02:50 was shot dead by police shortly afterwards.
02:52 France has been hit by a series of Islamist attacks in recent years.
02:56 The worst was in November 2015 when gunmen and suicide bombers attacked entertainment
03:02 venues and cafes in Paris, killing 130 people.
03:07 That attack was claimed by the Islamic State, is.