France, April 25 -- French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has urged "an intensification of controls in and around schools" after a student killed a teenage girl and wounded three other pupils in a stabbing spree on Thursday at a private school.

In the latest case to shock France, the 16-year-old assailant attacked fellow students with a knife at the Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides grammar school in the western city of Nantes.

One girl died at the scene while one of the three wounded, also a girl, was said to be in critical condition.

The youth- whose identity has not been revealed but who had expressed an admiration for Adolf Hitler- was overcome by teachers after staging attacks in several classrooms, witnesses said.

He was detained by po...