One dead and police officers stabbed in Mulhouse knife attack

One person has been killed and two police officers seriously injured in a knife attack in eastern France.

A man attacked people at a canal market in Mulhouse, near the German border, mayor Michele Lutz said on Facebook.

Several police officers who intervened were injured, she said, adding: “Horror has just gripped our city.”

President Macron told BFMTV it was “beyond doubt” it was an “Islamist terrorist attack”. He said the interior minister was heading to Mulhouse and would speak later.

The suspect, 37, was arrested and was on a terror watchlist, French media reported.

He is said to have been at a police station – where he was due to sign a document for his detention – but refused and ran into the market area where he launched the attack.

One police officer was stabbed in the neck and another in the chest, according to French media. Three other police sustained very minor injuries.

The attacker was born in Algeria and had been under house arrest, Le Monde reported.

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