'It's Daesh.. It's a warning': Masked ISIS attacker's cry as he stabbed female school teacher in Paris 'in neck'

Suspect understood to have been masked, wearing gloves, and cited terror group during knifing.

Police outside Jean Perrin d'Aubervilliers school after attack this morning

A FEMALE primary school teacher has been stabbed in Paris by a suspected ISIS extremist.

The suspect is still on the run and being hunted by armed police following the horror incident in the northern suburb of Aubervilliers. The attack is believed to have happened outside the Jean Perrin d'Aubervilliers school at around 7am this morning.

Manhunt underway as armed cops search for the knifeman

The suspected jihadist is thought to have shouted: "This is Daesh. This is a warning" as he carried out the frenzied assault. The 45-year-old teacher is thought to have been knifed with a box cutter, according to reports.

Bystanders outside school after attack

It is feared she was stabbed in the neck. She was said to be preparing for his class at the time of the shocking incident. Prosecutors said the assailant shouted the chilling threat before grabbing a box cutter knife lying nearby and lashing out.

Incident happened in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers

The terror suspect arrived without a weapon but grabbed the box cutter and slashed the shocked teacher with it. He fled leaving the teacher in a pool of blood. The woman was rushed to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injures.

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The hooded attacker is understood to have been masked, wearing white painer's overalls, gloves, and cited ISIS during the knifing. French authorities appear to be treating the stabbing as a terrorist incident. Anti-terror police have taken over the investigation.

No school children are believed to have been at the scene when the attack occurred. The IS French-language magazine recently encouraged attacks on teachers in France – describing them as "enemies of Allah" for teaching secularism.

Eduction minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said: "We will strengthen security around this institution and elsewhere." He described the attack as "very serio