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View of Annecy, French Alps. France’s Interior Minister said that an attacker with a knife injured children and others in the town
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An attacker with a knife stabbed several children and at least one adult, leaving some with life-threatening injuries, in a town in the Alps on June 8 before he was arrested, authorities said.
Two children and one adult are in life-threatening condition, while two children are slightly hurt, the police said. The man who attacked the children is a Syrian national with legal refugee status in France, a police official said.
Interior Minster Gerald Darmanin said the attack took place in a square in the lakeside town of Annecy. In a short tweet, he said police have detained the attacker.
“Several people including children have been injured by an individual armed with a knife in a square in Annecy,” he tweeted.
‘’Absolute cowardice’
France President Emmanuel Macron called it an attack of cowardice. He tweeted: “Attack of absolute cowardice this morning in a park in Annecy. Children and an adult are between life and death. The Nation is in shock. Our thoughts are with them as well as their families and the emergency services mobilised.”
A local lawmaker, Antoine Armand, tweeted that children were attacked on a playground. He called the attack “abominable.”
In Paris, lawmakers interrupted a debate to hold a moment of silence for the victims.
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