PARIS - Four children and an adult have been injured in a knife attack in a park in Annecy, a town in the French Alps, police said on Thursday (June 8), adding that three of the children were in a life-threatening condition. The children were about three years old, police said. Earlier, police spoke of eight children hurt. French Interior...
PARIS - Four children and an adult have been injured in a knife attack in a park in Annecy, a town in the French Alps, police said on Thursday , adding that three of the children were in a life-threatening condition.French Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said on Twitter that attacker had been arrested.
Haute Savoie region member of parliament Virginie Duby-Muller said on BFM that the attacker was a Syrian who had asylum refugee status. Police could not comment on the attacker's identity, other than to say it was a man."Nothing more abominable than to attack children," French national assembly speaker Yael Braun-Pivet said on Twitter. The French parliament observed a minute of silence to mark the incident.
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