French anti-terror prosecutors said Friday they were investigating an attack in which a man was decapitated on the outskirts of Paris and the attacker shot by police.
The attack happened at around 5 p.m. near a school in Conflans Saint-Honorine, a suburb west of Paris.
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The attacker sustained serious injuries after being shot by police in a neighboring town, sources close to the investigations said.
Reuters reported that the attacker was shot and killed.
A police source said that witnesses had heard the attacker shout "Allah Akbar," or "God is Great." The police spokesman said that information was being checked.
France has over the past several years seen a series of violent attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists.
Late last month, a man who emigrated to France from Pakistan used a meat cleaver to attack and wound two people outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
That was the spot where Islamist militants gunned down employees of the magazine five years ago in retaliation for the magazine's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
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