A knife-wielding man has killed two people and wounded several others at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday.
The incident was confirmed by Mayor Christian Estrosi. who said the knife attack had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame church and that police had detained the attacker.
The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty by a man of Chechen origin.
The attacker had said he wanted to punish Paty for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics lesson.
It was not immediately clear what the motive was for the Nice attack, or if there was any connection to the controversial cartoons, which Muslims consider to be blasphemous.
