Horror as two girls, 6 & 11, stabbed in knife rampage in France as school placed on lockdown & armed cops swoop

TWO girls, aged six and 11, were attacked by a rampaging knifeman near a school in France.

The attacker was arrested and the two children were taken to a hospital with superficial wounds, police said.

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The 11-year-old was stabbed outside the school in the town of Souffelweyersheim, while the six-year-old was attacked by the same man in a nearby square.

Police said the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Terrified parents were later in the afternoon allowed to pick up their children, who had been confined to the school in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

“I’m really scared. We’ve been reassured that the children are safe inside, but we don’t know when we’ll be able to get them back,” Sarah, a mother of an eight-year-old pupil, said before the green light was given to collect the children.

The attack came as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures aimed at cracking down on violence committed by schoolchildren against their peers.

There was no indication so far that the attacker had a link with the school.

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