Three dead as woman beheaded in knife attack in Nice, France
The man suspected of carrying out a fatal knife attack kept shouting “Allahu Akbar.” By REUTERS, SARAH CHEMLA OCTOBER 29, 2020 Reported knife attack in French city of Nice.
A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist incident at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police and officials said.
Within hours of the Nice attack, police killed a man who had threatened passersby with a handgun in Montfavet, near the southern French city of Avignon. He was also shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest), according to radio station Europe 1.
Nice’s Mayor Christian Estrosi, who described the attack as terrorism, said on Twitter it had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame church.