Three dead in church attack as France says ‘enough is enough’
A man slit the throat of the sexton, beheaded a woman, and badly wounded a third woman, with Nice mayor saying it is ‘time to wipe out Islamo-fascism’
29 October 2020 - 12:16
Nice — A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is [the] greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday.
A defiant President Emmanuel Macron, declaring that France had been subject to an Islamist terrorist attack, said he would deploy thousands more soldiers to protect key French sites, such as places of worship and schools...
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