Recent Terrorist attack in Paris, A teacher Beheaded near school by student

Eighteen-year-old boy decapitated a history-geography teacher near a school in a suburb north of Paris on Friday, before being shot dead by police. The teacher had recently shown his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Victim's body was found in Éragny-Sur-Oise, northwest of the capital, according to the French National Anti-Terror Prosecutor's office. The prosecutor's office confirmed that the attacker was killed by police in the same area.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called the beheading of a teacher in a north-western suburb of Paris an "Islamist terrorist attack". A man wielding a large knife attacked the teacher in a street in the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, cutting off his head. A police source said that witnesses had heard the attacker shout "Allahu Akbar", or "God is Greatest", the Reuters news agency reported. The attacker then ran off, but local police alerted by the public were quickly at the scene. The victim is said to have shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils. The attacker was shot dead by police.

Mr. Macron said the as yet unnamed teacher was murdered because he "taught freedom of expression".

The attack occurred at about 17:00 local time (15:00 GMT) near a school. Anti-terror prosecutors are investigating. The knife-wielding attacker was shot as officers tried to arrest him in the aftermath of the attack. Police have not released any personal details about him, although French media report he was an 18-year-old man of Chechen origin who was born in Moscow.

A trial is currently under way in Paris over a 2015 Islamist assault on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was targeted for publishing the cartoons. Three weeks ago, a man attacked and wounded two people outside the magazine's former offices.

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