An attacker stabbed six people on Wednesday at the busy Gare du Nord station in Paris before being shot and apprehended by police, authorities said.
The Gare du Nord is a busy commuter hub that also serves as a departure point for trains to northern France, London, and northern Europe.
Police were treating the stabbings as attempted murder, not as a terrorist attack, a source close to the case said.One of the six people was seriously wounded in the attack at 6:42 am , while the other five sustained light injuries, prosecutors said. The entire incident was over within two minutes, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters at the scene.Police initially described it as a bladed weapon. Darmanin later said it was not actually a knife, but a “threatening weapon”.The attacker sustained injuries to the chest after police fired three rounds. He was taken to hospital where he was fighting for his life, Darmanin said.
The police who intervened were off-duty officers in plain clothes who used their service weapons to stop the attack, he said.
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