Man in southeast France killis two and wounds several others in knife attack before being arrested, officials say
French Police officers wearing protective suits stand in a street in the centre of Romans-sur-Isere, on April 4, 2020, after a man attacked several people with a knife.
A man wielding a knife attacked residents venturing out to shop in a town under lockdown south of the French city of Lyon on Saturday, killing two people and wounding others, prosecutors said.They said he had no documents but claimed to be Sudanese and to have been born in 1987.Prosecutors said that other people were also wounded but couldn’t confirm French media reports that there were seven other casualties, of whom one is in critical condition.
They also did not confirm reports that the man had shouted "Allahu akbar" as he carried out the attack. The office said it is evaluating whether the attack was motivated by terrorism, but that it has not launched any formal proceedings to treat it as such.The victims were carrying out their weekend food shopping on the street that has bakeries and grocers, the office said. Two-metre distancing is being encouraged as in the rest of the country.
Two days earlier, another man was shot dead by police after he stabbed one person fatally and wounded two others in a Paris suburb.
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