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| Man arrested after stabbings in centre of Romans-sur-Isère in south-east France | |
| A man has killed two people and injured several others, one critically, in a knife attack in a town in south-east France. | |
| The man was arrested by police at around 11am after attacking customers in a shop and passersby at Romans-sur-Isère in the Drôme, 20km north of Valence. | |
| Witnesses said the man first attacked the owner of a tobacconist and two customers inside the shop in the town centre. He then walked out and began stabbing people in the street. One of the dead was inside the tobacconist; a second man, a butcher from a nearby shop, was killed outside. | |
| Police told French media the arrested man was a 33-year-old asylum seeker from Sudan. Anti-terrorist investigators had been advised and were said to be “evaluating the situation” before getting involved. | Police told French media the arrested man was a 33-year-old asylum seeker from Sudan. Anti-terrorist investigators had been advised and were said to be “evaluating the situation” before getting involved. |