⁍ A knife-wielding attacker beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday.
⁍ A defiant President Emmanuel Macron, declaring that France had been subject to an Islamist terrorist attack, said he would deploy thousands more soldiers to protect important French sites.
⁍ Within hours of the Nice attack, French police killed a man who had threatened passersby with a handgun in Montfavet, near the southern city of Avignon.
– A knife-wielding attacker beheaded two people and seriously injured a third Thursday morning in a church in Nice, France, the AP reports. According to Reuters, the attacker entered the church, slit the throat of a woman, and beheaded an elderly woman. A third woman managed to get out of the church and to a nearby cafe, where she died. The attacker was shot by police while being detained. “He is on his way to hospital, he is alive,” Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi told reporters. “Enough is enough. It’s time now for France to exonerate itself from the laws of peace in order to definitively wipe out Islamo-fascism from our territory.” ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/france-security-nice-int/three-dead-as-woman-beheaded-in-attack-in-french-church-idUSKBN27E18D