Eyewitnesses at the scene told French media that the suspect cried 'Allahu Akhbar' - the Arabic phrase for 'God is great' - as he carried out the attack.
BREAKING: More to followA teacher has died and several people have been wounded in a knife attack at a high school in northern France, police said.
France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced a police operation underway at the school, adding the suspect was arrested at the scene, without giving more details The attacker, a 31-year-old Christian Syrian refugee with permanent Swedish residency, mentioned his daughter, his wife and Jesus Christ during the attack in the lakeside town of Annecy.
Earlier in the year, two Paris-born gunmen linked to Al-Qaeda broke into the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, leaving 17 people dead inside and three outside.
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