, cutting the throat of at least one woman, inside a church in Nice on the French Riviera on Thursday .
The attacker had a copy of the Quran and three knives with him, France's anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Picard told a news conference.In a near half-hour frenzy in the Notre-Dame basilica in the centre of Nice, the assailant used a knife of 30 centimetres to cut the throat of a 60-year-old woman who died inside the church.
Another woman, a 44-year-old who had fled the church to a nearby restaurant, died shortly afterwards from multiple knife wounds.Videos seen by AFP show he was hit at least six times in a side exit from the church. The suspected knifeman called himself"Brahim" when he was arrested and later claimed to be Brahim Aouissaoui, the source added.The dead man was the church's sacristan, a 45-year-old father of two girls, according to Canon Philippe Asso, the church's most senior cleric.
NiceAttack We know only one thing: followers of deadly satanic cult should be sent back to the deserts of Arabia where their cult leader invented this blood thirsty ideology They should not be allowed to leave the village of their cult leader! FranceTerrorAttack franceattack
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