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Three dead as woman beheaded in attack in French church; security hiked

A defiant President Emmanuel Macron, declaring that France had been subject to an Islamist terrorist attack, said he would deploy thousands more soldiers to protect important French sites

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Security forces guard the area after a reported knife attack at Notre Dame church in Nice on Thursday | Photo: Reuters

Reuters Paris | Nice, France

5 min read Last Updated : Oct 30 2020 | 12:29 AM IST

A knife-wielding attacker shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday.

A defiant President Emmanuel Macron, declaring that France had been subject to an Islamist terrorist attack, said he would deploy thousands more soldiers to protect important French sites, such as places of worship and schools.

Speaking from the scene, he said France had been attacked "over our values, for our taste for freedom, for the ability on our soil to have freedom of belief".

"And I say it with lots of clarity again today: we

Topics : France Emmanuel Macron

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