Macron visits Annecy knife attack victims as two children remain critical

A woman holding a baby lays flowers near the scene of the attack at a lakeside park in Annecy, France. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have visited preschool children and an elderly man who were badly wounded in a knife attack in the French Alps, as the suspect’s detention was extended after a psychiatric examination on Friday.

Four toddlers – one aged 22 months, two aged two and one aged three – as well as two men aged 70 and 78 were injured in the stabbing, which happened on Thursday morning in a children’s playground in the popular lakeside town of Annecy.