Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Four children, adult dead after family member goes ‘Mad’

Family dispute leads to horrible stabbing, hammer attack in Paris

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The police were alerted after a young injured child went to a bar asking for help

At least five people have died and several others injured in Paris after a stabbing over a family dispute in which a man attacked his family.

They found, five people who had died and five people who were unconsciou­s

According to the French outlet BFM TV, the attack took place on Saturday morning. The five deaths have been reported to be of four children and one adult. Three additional family members were hospitaliz­ed.

The incident took place in the Noisy-le-sec commune, in northeaste­rn Paris.

The police were alerted to the incident after a young injured child went to a bar asking for help near where the incident happened. The child is reported to have told the manager of the bar that his uncle had “gone mad” and that he had assaulted the rest of his family “with a knife and a hammer.”

Officers were dispatched to the scene of the incident where they found, in addition to the five people who had died, five people who were unconsciou­s or seriously injured.

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