(AFP) A knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, slitting the throat of at least one of them, in what officials are treating as the latest jihadist attack to rock the country.
The assailant “kept repeating ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is greater) even while under medication” after he was injured during his arrest, Nice’s Mayor Christian Estrosi told journalists at the scene.
A man and a woman died at the Basilica of Notre-Dame, in the heart of the Mediterranean resort city, while a third person succumbed to injuries after seeking refuge in a nearby bar, a police source told AFP.
No mass was underway at the time of the attack, but the church opens around 8:00 am and “people come in to pray at all hours,” Father Philippe Asso, who serves at the basilica, told AFP.
