A British child has been injured along with several other young children following a knife attack in a lakeside park in the French Alps, UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has confirmed.
The attack on Thursday morning saw multiple children stabbed inside a playground in the town of Annecy, including one in a pushchair, with adults also attacked. Local police said that the four child victims are all under the age of five, while national police confirmed that two of the children suffered life-threatening injuries, as did one adult.
Speaking at a press conference in France hours after the attack, the Foreign Secretary said: "Our thoughts are with the victims and the families, and we stand ready to support the French authorities in whichever way we can." Cleverly added he was "also aware that one of the people, one of the children injured, was a British national".
