>Three dead as woman beheaded in knife attack at French church
>NICE, France (Reuters) - A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist attack at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police and officials said.
>Nice’s mayor, Christian Estrosi, who described the attack as terrorism, said on Twitter it had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame church and that police had detained the attacker.
>Estrosi said the attacker had shouted the phrase “Allahu Akbar”, or God is greatest.
>One of the people killed inside the church was believed to be the church warden, Estrosi said.
>The attacker kept shouting “Allahu Akbar” even after he had been detained, Estrosi said.
>“The suspected knife attacker was shot by police while being detained, he is on his way to hospital, he is alive,” Estrosi told reporters.
>Police said three people were confirmed to have died in the attack and several were injured.
>A police source said a woman was decapitated. French politician Marine Le Pen also spoke of a decapitation having occurred in the attack.
>Estrosi said the victims had been killed in a “horrible way”.
>“The methods match, without doubt, those used against the brave teacher in Conflans Sainte Honorine, Samuel Paty,” he said, referring to a French teacher beheaded earlier this month in an attack in a suburb of Paris.
>Since Paty’s killing, French officials - backed by many ordinary citizens - have re-asserted the right to display the cartoons, and the images have been widely displayed at marches in solidarity with the killed teacher.
>That has prompted an outpouring of anger in parts of the Muslim world, with some governments accusing French leader Emmanuel Macron of pursuing an anti-Islam agenda.
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