Six in custody over Nice church attack in France Reuters Staff PARIS (Reuters) - Two more men were arrested in connection with a knife attac

Six in custody over Nice church attack in France
Reuters Staff
PARIS (Reuters) - Two more men were arrested in connection with a knife attack that left three dead at a church in Nice, bringing the number of people in custody to six as investigators look at the suspected assailant’s last known contacts, a French police source said.

FILE PHOTO: Portrait of a deadly knife attack victim is seen among flowers in front of the Notre Dame church in Nice, France, October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo
The latest arrests took place on Saturday, the source said.

An assailant shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice on Thursday, in France’s second deadly knife attack in two weeks with a suspected Islamist motive.

The suspected attacker, a 21-year-old from Tunisia, was shot by police and is now in critical condition in a hospital.

The latest arrests in the case involved two men from the town of Grasse, near the southern French coast close to Nice, BFM TV reported.

France’s chief anti-terrorism prosecutor has said the man suspected of carrying out the Nice attack had arrived in Europe on Sept. 20 in Lampedusa, the Italian island off Tunisia.

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