Two journalists stabbed near former Charlie Hebdo office in Paris
- Two suspects had been arrested in connection with the attack which is being investigated by anti-terrorism police
- The French PM said the two wounded were assaulted at random when taking a cigarette break
Prime Minister Jean Castex, who rushed to the scene, said the main attacker had been arrested. A second person was also in custody after the attack, in which witnesses said a meat cleaver or butcher’s knife had been used as a weapon.
A local resident, who heard the attack, said there was a long, deathly shout from “a person who was screaming and screaming.”
A neighbour said she saw blood on the ground and people pulling a wounded woman away into a building housing a news agency.
Workers repairing the road told her “a dark-skinned man randomly hit a lady with a big butcher’s knife” in front of a mural that serves as a memorial to victims of the 2015 attack.
Castex said the two wounded were attacked at random when taking a cigarette break. The life of neither was in danger, he added.