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Tunisian man identified as French knife attack suspect

Brahim Aouissaoui did not say anything about a plan to kill people the day of the attack in the southern French city, his family told Arabic-language press.
A woman pays homage in front of the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Basilica in Nice on October 30, 2020 during a tribute to the victims killed by a knife attacker the day before. - A 47-year-old man believed to have been in contact with the suspected knifeman who killed three at a church in Nice has been detained for questioning, a judicial source said on October 30, 2020. The man was detained late Thursday after the attack at the city's Notre-Dame basilica by a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in France on Oct

A Tunisian man has been identified as the assailant accused of killing three people with a knife in a French church on Thursday.

Brahim Aouissaoui is suspected of carrying out the deadly knife attack in Nice. Aouissaoui allegedly stabbed three people to death at the Basilica of Notre-Dame before he was shot and arrested. He is now in the hospital in critical condition.

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