UPDATE: Several children have been stabbed, leaving some with life-threatening injuries in the lakeside town of Annecy. More to come. 9News
French President Emmanuel Macron said "children and an adult are between life and death". He described the assault in the Alpine town of Annecy as an "attack of absolute cowardice".A file photo shows a view of the lake of Annecy in the French Alps.
Darmanin said the attack took place in a square in the lakeside town of Annecy, just over the border from Geneva in Switzerland and about 550km south-east of Paris."Several people including children have been injured by an individual armed with a knife in a square in Annecy," he tweeted. A local politician, Antoine Armand, described the attack as "abominable" and said the children were attacked on a playground."We still know very little but all my support for the victims, relatives, law enforcement and rescue," Armand said in a translation of a tweet.
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