Paris (CNN) - At least three people have been killed in the French coastal city of Nice during a knife attack that the local mayor described as a
"terrorist" incident.
The attack took place in a church, the Notre-Dame Basilica, on Thursday. The victims include one woman who had her throat slit, a police source told CNN.
Nice's mayor, Christian Estrosi, earlier described the woman as having been "decapitated."
The police source told CNN that another victim was a man who died after being stabbed multiple times. The third casualty was a woman who was wounded inside the church but managed to leave the scene. She died in a nearby café, the source added.
Estrosi said the attacker was shot by police, but is still alive and has been taken into custody. "I am on the scene with the police who arrested the attacker. Everything points to a terrorist attack," the mayor said on Twitter Thursday morning.
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