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hello, welcome to verified live. three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. a man with a knife has attacked nursery school children in the french town of annecy. the victims are as young as three, according to french reports, which say two children and a man are in a life threatening condition. one of the children attacked is a british national and another is a dutch national. a man was arrested near the scene. the moment of his arrest was captured on camera. take a look. people are screaming in the background. the man in this video injured whilst being arrested, police say he is a syrian who has refugee status in sweden, with no known links to islamist groups. he has a child who is apparently the same age as the little chldren he attacked. this all happened in the town of annecy, in the french alps. the children, all aged three and under, were on an outing to a park, some in pushchairs. the attacker also stabbed an elderly man walking near ....
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locals in the town that have been speaking with, who are of course horrified that this could happen on a sunny morning there in a tranquil park by the lake. all the way through to the journalist community thatis through to the journalist community that is also shocked by the stabbing, all the way up to the highest echelons of the french government. as i mentioned, president macron was tweeting there. we have more comments on twitter, tweeting about this horrible attack. this is striking a chord across the nation. france is perhaps not a stranger to stabbing attacks, especially since the 2015 terrorist attacks, although we should stress that we don t know what the motive was in this particular attack. every time it is a shock and every time it is distressing and the details are disturbing, but especially today. many people are reacting on social media, saying that these were children, these were children as young as three years old. particularly distressing is the nation ....
visible in hand. we can t show you what happened next. this video shows him running away. from syria. 31 years old. this is the park where it happened. 10am this morning. lots of young children there. the man with the knife has a child of his own, around the same age as those he attacked. let s hearfrom people who were there. translation: all of a sudden, a lady says, run, run, - there is a guy who stabbing everyone all along the lake . he stabbed some children . run, run . i tell the cops to shoot him, kill him, he is stabbing everybody . i was approaching that end of the lake, i saw and heard multiple police sirens and a helicopter about to land. i knew immediately there was some very dire emergency situation happening. so i stopped where i was, at the corner of the park near the lake, and started photographing. i observed a channel 26 french tv person with her cameraman. it was somewhat chaotic. the police were trying to keep bicyclists and people from approachin ....
nursery school children have been attacked by a man with a knife in the east of the country. two children are thought to be in a critical condition. it appears they were playing in a park by a lake when they were attacked. it happened in the town of annecy, in the french alps. the interior minister says the suspect has been arrested. the french parliament held a minute s silence when news of the stabbings emerged, while the country s prime minister, elizabeth borne, is on her way to the scene. this is the scene in the french parliament a little earlier when news of that attack emerged. in the last few minutes, france s president has tweeted. emmanuel macron says: attack of absolute cowardice this morning in a park in annecy. children and an adult are between life and death. the nation is in shock. our thoughts are with them as well as their families and the emergency services mobilized. our paris correspondent, hugh schofield, has the latest. we hear the detail, more ....