Four young children and an adult have been injured in a knife attack
in a park in Annecy, a town in the French Alps, police said on Thursday,
adding that three of the children were in life-threatening condition.
The children were about three years old, police said. Earlier, police spoke of eight children hurt.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that adding the attacker had been arrested.
An interior ministry spokesperson said that four children and two adults had been injured.
Police said the attacker was a man, and French media outlet Le Monde reported that he was a Syrian asylum seeker.
The
knife attack on a group of children in a park in the Alpine city of
Annecy was an act of "absolute cowardice," French President Emmanuel
Macron said in a statement on Twitter.
"Children and one adult are between life and death. The nation is in shock," Macron said.
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