Police said two people died after the attack.
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An assailant armed with a knife killed two people and injured several others at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, French media and police said, in an incident that the city’s mayor called of terrorism.
Mayor Christian Estrosi said on Twitter that the knife attack occurred in or near the town’s Notre Dame Church and that police arrested the attacker.
Police said two people died after the attack.
The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading at the beginning of the month of Samuel Paty, professor at the French college, by a man of Chechen origin.
The attacker had said he wanted to punish Paty for showing students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a civics lesson.
It was not immediately clear what the motive for the Nice attack was, or if there was any connection to the cartoons, which Muslims consider blasphemous.
Since Paty’s assassination, French officials – backed by many ordinary citizens – have reaffirmed the right to display the cartoons, and the images have been widely shown on marches in solidarity with the slain teacher.
It sparked anger in parts of the Muslim world, with some governments accusing French leader Emmanuel Macron of pursuing an anti-Islam agenda.
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