Three killed in knife attack in Nice

NICE: An attacker with a knife killed three people and wounded several others at a church in the French city of Nice yesterday, French media and police said, in an incident the city's mayor described as terrorism.

Mayor Christian Estrosi said on Twitter the knife attack had happened in or near the city's Notre Dame church and that police had detained the attacker.

Police said three people were confirmed to have died after the attack.

A police source said a woman had been decapitated.

The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty.The attacker had said he wanted to punish Paty for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics lesson.

It was not immediately clear what the motive was for the Nice attack, or if there was any connection to the cartoons, which Muslims consider to be blasphemous. — Reuters