Pupil shoots at teachers with hunting rifle in southern France

PARIS, Oct ‌12 (Reuters) - A ​French ​middle-school pupil shot and wounded a headteacher and a female ‌staff member with a hunting rifle ⁠at a school near Marseille on Monday, ‌the local mayor said.

A ‌supervisor at Joseph Lakanal college disarmed the 14-year-old before police arrived, Aubagne ​mayor Jean-Pierre Squillari told reporters. Both victims were hospitalised but neither ⁠suffered life-threatening injuries, he added.

BFM TV said the 14-year-old ​pupil had entered the school with the rifle hidden in a ​guitar case.

"It's a ‌kid who goes to that school. He entered with a ⁠rifle, the investigation will determine how, and fired twice in a corridor toward ⁠the principal and a teacher," Squillari said.

There was ​no immediate indication that the shooting was linked to a three-week wave of protests, some ‌violent, that have rocked high schools across the country. ‌President Emmanuel Macron condemned those incidents ⁠of violence on ‌Monday.

(Reporting by Sudip ​Kar-Gupta and Nicolas Delame; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Ros ‌Russell)

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