The female teaching assistant stabbed to death by one of her students during a bag search at a school in France has been pictured.

Mélanie G., a 31-year-old mother-of-one, was attacked several times with a knife outside the Françoise Dolto secondary school in Nogent on Tuesday.

She was said to have been taken into care in 'absolute emergency' before succumbing to her injuries within two hours.

Mélanie was the mother of a four-year-old child and lived in nearby Sarcey, where she also worked as a municipal councillor, Le Dauphine reports.

She had celebrated her 31st birthday only a few days ago.