Eight hurt in French school shooting

A heavily armed pupil injured his head teacher and seven other people during a shooting at a French high school yesterday, rattling nerves in a country repeatedly the target of jihadist attacks, police and officials said.

The 17-year-old pupil was arrested afterwards in possession of a rifle, two handguns and two grenades after the attack at the Tocqueville high school in the sleepy hillside town of Grasse in southern France, police told AFP.

The head of the regional government, Christian Estrosi, told AFP that the shooting was "not at all" being seen as a terror attack at this stage, adding that the principal and two other pupils were lightly injured in gunshot.