Three people were stabbed to death in a suspected jihadist attack at the Notre-Dame basilica in the southern French city of Nice.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday’s stabbings were an ‘Islamist terrorist attack’.
Following the latest attack, police shot and wounded the suspected knifeman, identified as a 21-year-old Tunisian who had only recently arrived in Europe. He is said to be in a critical condition in hospital.
The BBC said security had been stepped up at places of worship and schools across France following two similar attacks within two weeks. Earlier this month a teacher was beheaded in a Paris suburb after showing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to some of his pupils.
The report said Macron’s subsequent defence of the right to publish the cartoons had stoked anger in several Muslim-majority countries.
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