French authorities say a man wielding a knife attacked residents of a French town when they went out to shop amid a coronavirus lockdown.
A man wielding a knife attacked residents of a French town while they ventured out to shop amid a coronavirus lockdown Saturday, killing two people and wounding eight others, authorities said.
Two people were killed and eight injured, he said. French media reported that three were in critical condition.France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office told the Associated Press the attack took place at 11 a.m. on a commercial street. The office said it was evaluating whether the attack was motivated by terrorism but that it had not launched any formal proceedings to treat it as such.Like the rest of France, the town’s residents are on coronavirus-linked lockdown. The victims were carrying out their weekend food shopping on the street, which has bakeries and grocery stores, the office said. Distancing of 2 meters is being encouraged in France.
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