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French soldiers hurt in knife attack French soldiers wounded in Nice Jewish centre 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 wielding 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 wounded and police said the assailant was captured.
The attack happened in central Nice. Two people who were with the assailant fled the scene, reports say. Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi told French TV that a second man had been arrested in connection with the stabbing.
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. The attacker was expelled from Turkey last week and questioned upon his return, French media reported.
One soldier was hurt in one arm, the other in the face in Tuesday's attack, an official at Nice city hall said. France has been on high alert since last month's terror attacks in Paris by three Islamist gunmen, in which 17 people were killed.
Two police officers from the city's tram service and another man managed to arrest the assailant, who reportedly had two knives. After the attacks, 10,500 soldiers were deployed outside sensitive sites including Jewish and Muslim centres as well as media buildings.
The soldiers were guarding a building housing the Nice Israeli Consistory, Radio Shalom and a Jewish association. The soldiers attacked in Nice were guarding a building in the city's Massena square which houses the Jewish community centre and a Jewish radio station.
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. The attacker had been travelling on the tram without a ticket, but left the tram when ticket collectors approached him and he then targeted the soldiers.
He slashed one soldier in the cheek then injured a second who tried to intervene in the arm, the mayor said.
He tried to escape but was caught by a shop owner, tram workers and police patrolling nearby.
He has been named by French media as Moussa Coulibaly, but there appears to be no link with the Paris gunman Amedy Coulibaly, who killed four people in a Jewish supermarket in January.