Man shot dead by police after fatal knife attack in Paris suburb
The man had attacked "several people" in a park in Villejuif before he was "neutralised", the Paris police department said.The attacker was shot dead by police in a neighbouring suburb. The attacker's motive has not been made clear.The number two at the interior ministry, Laurent Nunez, travelled to the scene of the stabbings accompanied by Paris police chief Didier Lallement.
France has been hard hit by a string of attacks, many by jihadist extremists, since 2015, with more than 250 killed in total. Most recently, a police staff member who had converted to a radical version of Islam stabbed four colleagues to death at the Paris police headquarters last October.
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