Factbox: France's litany of deadly attacks


  • World
  • Saturday, 17 Oct 2020

A view shows the scene of a stabbing attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine, France, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

(Reuters) - An attacker with a knife killed two people and wounded several others at a church in Nice on Thursday, police said.

The incident, which the Mediterranean city's mayor described as terrorism, took place less than two weeks after the beheading of middle school teacher Samuel Paty by a man of Chechen origin.

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