The Royal Gendarmerie of Morocco arrested a man on Sunday evening suspected of stabbing a student to death and wounding two others in the town of Sefrou on Friday.
The arrest followed a tip from someone who saw the man fleeing after the incident.
The suspect is a 29-year-old man with a criminal record, from a neighboring community. He could not be immediately identified, but was arrested on the basis of a police sketch.
The man attacked three female students on their way to their secondary school in Sefrou on Friday afternoon. He blocked their path and stabbed them with a knife, after which he stole their belongings. One of the students, a 16-year-old who was in her first year of baccalaureate, died shortly after arriving at the hospital in Fez. Her two friends suffered injuries to their faces and hands.
The murder caused great unrest among the residents of Sefrou. The police and gendarmerie launched a large-scale search to find him.
On Monday morning, the suspect was handed over to the judicial police in Sefrou.
