Three injured in knife attack in Clermont-Ferrand, attacker shot and wounded
A 34-year-old man wounded three people with a knife in the Carmes district of Clermont-Ferrand before being neutralised by a police shot.
Three injured in knife attack in Clermont-Ferrand, attacker shot and wounded
A 34-year-old man carried out multiple knife attacks in the Carmes district of Clermont-Ferrand on Sunday in the early afternoon. Three people were injured. The man was subsequently hit by a police gunshot and hospitalised, as reported by the website La Montagne.
The GSP services, a proximity security unit, were alerted by multiple calls to the emergency number reporting a man armed with a large blade and threatening passers-by. Officers spotted a suspect matching the descriptions on Boulevard Jean-Baptiste Dumas.
The intervention resulted in the neutralisation of the attacker by an officer who discharged his weapon. The man was wounded. The exact circumstances of the confrontation and the condition of the victims were not specified immediately.
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