Knife Attack: Man Stabs Six Pre-school Children In France

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Seven people, including six children, have been injured in a mass stabbing Alps today

A man with a knife stabbed eight people in France including four small children and an adult on Thursday( today). Three of the victims are left with life-threatening injuries while the suspect was arrested in the town of Annecy in France.

 

According to report gathered the man armed with a knife attacked a group of children aged around three years old as they played in a park near the lake in the town.

 

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted that the culprit “has however been arrested

 

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne’s office announced she was travelling to the scene and MPs in the national parliament held a minute’s silence as news of the attack broke in the French media.

 

The suspect in a stabbing attack in the French town of Annecy told police today that he was a Syrian asylum seeker,
The suspected attacker’s identity is being verified and has not been confirmed.

 

President Emmanuel Macron called it an attack of absolute cowardice. “Attack of absolute cowardice this morning in a park in Annecy. Children and an adult are fighting for their lives. The nation is shocked. Our thoughts are with them as well as their families and the emergency services,” he wrote on Twitter.

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