(CNN) One person was killed and two were injured in a stabbing attack in a Paris suburb Friday, a French government official confirmed. Police killed the attacker, who stabbed people in a park in the suburb of Villejuif, south of Paris, French news channel BFM TV quoted Laurent Nunez, the secretary of state to the interior minister, as saying. Nunez said the police had interrupted "a killing spree." Loïc Travers, the secretary of the National Police Alliance for the Ile-de-France region, told BFM TV the attack took place around 2 p.m. in Villejuif (8 a.m. The attacker has so far only been described as male.

Source: CNN January 03, 2020 14:56 UTC