ANNECY: A Syrian refugee armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and injured two adults by a lake in the French Alps on Thursday in an attack whose motive remains unclear.
The youngest victim in the quiet town of Annecy was just 22 months old and investigators are trying to understand the reasons for the frenzied rampage in a sunny public park at around 9:45 am .The attacker, dressed in black and carrying a blade around 10 centimeters long, could be heard shouting 'in the name of Jesus Christ' on a video taken by a bystander and seen by AFP.
I moved away and he lunged at an old man and woman and stabbed the old man,' former professional footballer Anthony Le Tallec, who was running in the park, told the local Dauphine Libere newspaper.Traumatic attacks All four child victims aged between 22 and 36 months, including a British boy, were in a critical state in hospital.UK consular officials were traveling to the area to support the boy's family, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said during a trip to Paris.
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