A man has been shot dead by French security forces after attacking a nurse and stabbing a police officer on the outskirts of Paris, reports The Independent.
The medic had been called to his home in the eastern suburb of Vincennes when the attack started on Friday morning, Le Parisen reported.
When police arrived at the scene, the 29-year-old suspect stabbed one of the officers in the neck before being shot dead by his colleagues.
The injured police officer was taken to hospital and was believed to be in a stable condition.
Authorities have given no further details on the attack or a possible motive but told local newspapers the assailant had recently left a psychiatric hospital.
It came just three days after another French police officer was stabbed in Toulouse by a man shouting that he was “sick of France”.
The attacker, identified as an Algerian man, was arrested at the scene and taken into custody. His victim needed stitches for neck wounds and has undergone hospital treatment.
Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, sent his condolences to the injured police officer, his relatives and colleagues.