{"id":328084,"date":"2020-10-29T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328084"},"modified":"2020-10-29T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:22:26","slug":"knife-attack-at-france-church-woman-beheaded-2-others-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/knife-attack-at-france-church-woman-beheaded-2-others-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife attack at France church, woman beheaded, 2 others killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328158 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/france-church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/france-church.jpg 744w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/france-church-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/france-church-696x458.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/france-church-638x420.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/>At least three people were killed and several others injured on Thursday in a knife attack at a church in the French city of Nice, the officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A man wielding a knife shouting \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nice\u2019s mayor, Christian Estrosi described the attack as terrorism and said the incident took place in or near Notre Dame church, the largest in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Estrosi said the attacker had repeatedly shouted the \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019 (God is greatest), even after being detained by police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The mayor said one of those killed was the caretaker at the basilica.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Police, three people were confirmed to have died in the attack and several were injured. A woman was decapitated, police source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The attacker was shot by police while being detained, &#8216;he is alive&#8217;, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It was not immediately known what the motive was for the Nice attack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three people were killed and several others injured on Thursday in a knife attack at a church in the French city of Nice, the officials said. A man wielding a knife shouting \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist incident. Nice\u2019s mayor, Christian Estrosi described the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[13645,13644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328162,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328084\/revisions\/328162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}