INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Nice: A knife attacker killed three people, cutting the throat of at least one woman, inside a church in Nice on the French Riviera on
Thursday.The brutal killings come only two weeks after a French teacher was decapitated outside his school north of Paris by an Islamist
far:What happened?At 8:29 am French time (0729 GMT) a man with a knife began attacking people praying inside the Basilica of Notre-Dame in
the heart of the Mediterranean city.The attacker had a copy of the Koran and three knives with him, France's anti-terror prosecutor
Jean-Francois Ricard told a news conference.In a near half-hour frenzy in the Notre-Dame basilica in the centre of Nice, the assailant used
church employee, was found nearby inside the basilica -- his throat had also been slit.Another woman, a 44-year-old who had fled the church
to a nearby restaurant, died shortly afterwards from multiple knife wounds.The killer was shot and wounded by police who arrived quickly at
the scene.Videos seen by AFP show he was hit at least six times in a side exit from the church.Even as he was being arrested the man
Tunisian suspect only arrived in France earlier this month after coming to Europe on a migrant boat via the Italian island of Lampedusa at
the end of September, an official source told AFP.The suspected knifeman called himself "Brahim" when he was arrested and later claimed to
be Brahim Aouissaoui, the source added.Who were the victims? The dead man was the church's sacristan, a 45-year-old father of two girls,
behead, and the other woman who died was a mother in her 40s."Tell my children I love them," she managed to say before her death, according
to French cable channel BFM TV.Is it a terror attack?The French authorities are treating it as a terror attack, with the anti-terrorist
prosecutor immediately opening an inquiry into "murder and attempted murder linked to a terrorist enterprise." President Emmanuel Macron
