NICE, France — A knife-wielding Tunisian man shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday before being shot and taken away by police. A Tunisian security source and a French police source named the suspect as Brahim Aouissaoui. Ricard told a news conference in Nice that the man had entered the city by train early on Thursday morning and made his way to the church, where he stabbed and killed the 55-year-old sexton and beheaded a 60-year-old woman. He also stabbed a 44-year-old woman who fled to a nearby cafe where she raised the alarm before dying, Ricard said. Security alert raisedAfter the Nice attack, Prime Minister Jean Castex raised France’s security alert to its highest level.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 29, 2020 22:18 UTC