Knife attacker injures several people, including children, in French Alpine town
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An attacker with a knife stabbed several young children and at least one adult, leaving some with life-threatening injuries, in a bucolic lakeside park in a town in the French Alps on Thursday before he was arrested, authorities said.
An attacker with a knife stabbed several young children and at least one adult, leaving some with life-threatening injuries, in a bucolic lakeside park in a town in the French Alps on Thursday before he was arrested, authorities said.
"The nation is in shock," he tweeted.
French President Emmanuel Macron said "children and an adult are between life and death." He described the assault in the Alpine town of Annecy as an "attack of absolute cowardice."
Police detained the attacker, said Interior Minster Gerald Darmanin. Police said the attacker was a man in his thirties.
Witnesses said some of the children appeared very young. A man who spoke to broadcaster BFMTV said he saw first-aiders working on "little bodies, 3 or 4 years old, perhaps."
A local lawmaker, Antoine Armand, said the children were attacked on a playground. Speaking to BFMTV from the National Assembly building in Paris, he said the victims included "very young" children and that they were "savagely attacked." The attack took place close to a primary school, he said.
National police and an Interior Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak about the developing situation both said that four children were among the wounded.
