France terror attacks: Three killed in Nice, knifeman shot in Avignon | Daily Mail Online
France has been struck by two terror attacks within hours of each other as three people were killed – two of them beheaded – in an attack inside a church in Nice before a man wielding a knife was shot dead by police in Avignon.
The first attack began around 9am at the Notre Dame basilica in Nice where a knifeman – believed to be a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant called Brahim Aoussaoui – beheaded an elderly female parishioner and a male church warden, fatally stabbed a second woman, wounded several others, and was then shot and arrested by police.
Two hours later, an armed man threatened people on the streets of Avignon – 120 miles from Nice – while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ before he was fatally shot by police.