translated from Spanish: Knife-armed man kills 2 passers-by who violated quarantine in France to go out and buy

A man armed with a knife attacked on Saturday residents who went shopping in a quarantined town south of the French city of Lyon, killing two people and injuring several others, the prosecution reported. The counterterrorism prosecutor’s office told The Associated Press that the attack took place at 11 a.m. on a shopping street in Romans-sur-Isere.La police arrested the alleged assailant, which he did not identify. The prosecution said the man did not carry identification documents, but claimed to be Sudanese and was born in 1987.Prosecutors said that other people were also injured, but were unable to confirm versions of the French press that there were seven others victims, three of whom would be in critical condition. Nor did they confirm reports that man had shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is great) while carrying out the attack. They said they are assessing whether it was a terrorist act, but that it has not initiated the formal procedure to designate it as such. The population, like the rest of France, is under confinement orders due to the coronavirus pandemic. Victims were likely making their weekly outing to buy food. People are being encouraged that when they go out to public places they take a minimum distance of two meters between them, as in the rest of the country. Media reported that the man first attacked a Romanian resident who had just left his home for his daily walk, slitting his throat in front of his girlfriend and son. After that, they reported, the assailant went into a tobacco shop, stabbed the pondman and two clients, and then entered the local butcher’s shop. He picked up another knife and attacked a client with him before entering a supermarket. Some buyers took refuge in a nearby bakery. There have been a number of knife attacks in France in recent months. In January, French police shot down a man in Metz who was waving a knife and shouting “Allahu akbar.” Two days earlier, another man was shot dead by police after he fatally stabbed one person and wounded two others in a Paris suburb.

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