Just In: Many Children Stabbed By Syrian Asylum Seeker In France

Several children have been stabbed in an attack in a park near Lake Annecy, in France’s south-east, the interior minister says.

A man with a knife stabbed several very young children, including at least one in a stroller, and also assaulted adults in a lakeside park in the French Alps on Thursday.

The savagery left at least two children and one adult with life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

Gerald Darmanin confirmed the perpetrator, identified by police as a 31-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker, had been arrested and detained by police.

Regional deputy Antoine Armand described the attack as “abominable” and said authorities were investigating.

The French prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, is on her way to the scene.

Details shortly….