French teenager stabs, wounds schoolmate

French officials said that a 15-year-old teenager at a French school on Friday stabbed and gravely wounded a female schoolmate over a personal dispute. A local prosecutor said she stabbed her schoolmate in a stairwell of the high school in the western town of Ancenis, gravely wounding her in the stomach, adding his office had opened a probe into "attempted murder".

Police seized the knife and a pair of scissors from the scene, as well as several other knives discovered in the suspect's bag, the prosecutor said.