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French soldiers wounded in Nice Jewish centre attack | |
(about 1 hour later) | |
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 wounded and police said the assailant was captured. | |
Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi told French TV that a second man had been arrested in connection with the stabbing. | |
The attacker was expelled from Turkey last week and questioned upon his return, French media reported. | |
France has been on high alert since last month's terror attacks in Paris by three Islamist gunmen, in which 17 people were killed. | |
After the attacks, 10,500 soldiers were deployed outside sensitive sites including Jewish and Muslim centres as well as media buildings. | |
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 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. |