PARIS: Seven people including two British tourists were wounded in Paris late Sunday by a knife-wielding man, a terrifying attack that bystanders tried to stop by throwing petanque balls at the assailant. Eyewitness Youssef Najah, 28, said he was walking beside the canal when he saw a man running and holding a knife about 25-30 cm (10-11 inches) long. According to the same witness, the attacker then dived into an alleyway, where the man “tried to hide behind two British tourists. On August 23, a man stabbed his mother and sister to death and seriously injured another person in a town near Paris before being shot dead by police. That attack came days after an Afghan asylum-seeker was arrested in town of Perigueux for a drunken rampage with a knife in which four people were wounded, one seriously.

Source: Pakistan Today September 10, 2018 05:15 UTC