Man wounds six people at Paris Gare du Nord station - Reuters

PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - A antheral attacked and wounded six radical astatine the Gare du Nord bid presumption successful Paris connected Wednesday morning, leaving 1 with superior injuries, earlier being changeable by off-duty constabulary officers, authorities said.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters the antheral attacked travellers with what looked similar a home-made limb astatine 0642 CET (0542 GMT) astatine the entranceway and wrong the station. Police had earlier said the antheral had utilized a weapon oregon blade.

Within a minute, off-duty constabulary officers returning location aft a nighttime displacement changeable the attacker 3 times, Darmanin said.

Gare du Nord, 1 of the busiest stations successful Europe, is the accomplishment constituent of the Eurostar bid from London and a large gateway to the northbound of Europe.

Asked astir imaginable violent motives, Darmanin said a transgression probe had been opened but that truthful acold nary probe for coercion had been opened.

He said the attacker, who has been taken to infirmary with life-threatening injuries, had said thing during the onslaught and had nary individuality papers connected him. One of the six injured is simply a constabulary officer, Darmanin said.

Police secured the country pursuing the attack. Radio franceinfo, quoting obstruction relation SNCF, said trains were operating normally.

In February 2022, constabulary killed a antheral who attacked them with a weapon astatine the Gare du Nord station. In October 2017, a antheral who stabbed 2 radical astatine the Marseille bid presumption was changeable and killed by soldiers.

Reporting by Alain Acco, Bertrand Boucey, Sudip Kar-Gupta and Dominique Vidalon; penning by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Alison Williams

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