Knife attacker injures a number of individuals, together with kids, in French Alpine city

PARIS (AP) — An attacker with a knife wounded kids and adults in a city within the Alps on Thursday earlier than he was shortly arrested, France’s inside ministry mentioned.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin mentioned the assault came about in a sq. within the lakeside city of Annecy. In a brief tweet, he mentioned 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.

An Interior Ministry official, talking on situation of anonymity as a result of he wasn’t licensed to discuss the growing state of affairs, mentioned 4 kids and two adults had been wounded. The official cautioned that the variety of wounded may evolve as a result of the complete particulars weren’t but clear. The official mentioned he had no particulars concerning the gravity of the accidents.

A neighborhood lawmaker, Antoine Armand, tweeted that kids had been attacked on a playground. He known as the assault “abominable.”