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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chris Stevenson and Shweta Sharma

EXPLAINED: Eight children stabbed in knife attack in france | Rare Historical Photos

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A British girl on holiday with her family was among four toddlers and two adults stabbed in an “odious and unspeakable” attack in an open-air playground by a man armed with a knife.

Witnesses described scenes of panic as screaming mothers sought to protect children from the assailant, who rampaged around a lakeside park in Annecy, in the French Alps. At least one child was stabbed in a pram despite desperate efforts by a woman to push him aside.

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