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Paris stabbings being investigated as terror attack

By Katelyn Caralle
Published May 13, 2018 4:24pm ET
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Paris stabbings being investigated as terror attack
A police officer cordons off the area after a knife attack in central Paris, Saturday May 12, 2018. The Paris police said the attacker was subdued by officers during the stabbing attack in the 2nd arrondissement or district of the French capital Saturday. | (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

The deadly knife attack Saturday evening in Paris, in which an assailant killed 29-year-old man and injured four others, is being investigated as a terrorist attack.

The knifeman shouted “Allahu Akhbar” as he wielded a kitchen knife toward pedestrians, according to witnesses, the Associated Press reported.

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