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| French soldiers hurt in knife attack | French soldiers hurt in knife attack |
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| A man with a knife has attacked three soldiers patrolling outside a Jewish community centre in Nice, in the south of France. | A man with a knife has attacked three soldiers patrolling outside a Jewish community centre in Nice, in the south of France. |
| Two soldiers were lightly wounded. The assailant was arrested, police say. | Two soldiers were lightly wounded. The assailant was arrested, police say. |
| The attack happened in central Nice. Two people who were with the assailant fled the scene, reports say. | The attack happened in central Nice. Two people who were with the assailant fled the scene, reports say. |
| France has been on high alert since last month's terror attacks in the Paris region by three Islamist gunmen, in which 17 were killed. | France has been on high alert since last month's terror attacks in the Paris region by three Islamist gunmen, in which 17 were killed. |
| One soldier was hurt in one arm, the other in the face in Tuesday's attack, an official at Nice city hall said. | |
| Two police officers from the city's tram service and another man managed to arrest the assailant, who reportedly had two knives. | |
| The soldiers were guarding a building housing the Nice Israeli Consistory, Radio Shalom and a Jewish association. | |
| The assailant has the Malian surname Coulibaly - the same as that of one of the Paris attackers, who killed four people in a Jewish supermarket. |