(AFP) A man wielding a skewer and knife went on the rampage in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, leaving a 19-year-old man dead and eight others injured, including three critically.
A police source said the alleged perpetrator was an Afghan asylum-seeker, unknown previously to both the police and the intelligence services.
An eye-witness in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, described the attack as frenzied.
“There was a man at the 57 (bus stop) who started striking out with a knife in all directions,” said a young girl whose top was stained with blood.
“He managed to hit, to cut open one person’s stomach,” she said.
