Three in custody in France following Nice attack
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People light candles outside the basilica in Nice where a knife attacker killed three people.
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PARIS (REUTERS) - A third person was taken into custody in France in connection with the knife attack which left three dead in Nice on Thursday (Oct 29), a police source said on Saturday (Oct 31).
The arrest took place on Friday, the source added.
An attacker beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the city of Nice on Thursday in the second deadly knife attack in France in two weeks.
A man was shot by police and is now in critical condition in a hospital. France's chief anti-terrorism prosecutor has said the man suspected of carrying out the Nice attack was a Tunisian born in 1999 who had arrived in Europe on Sept 20 in Lampedusa, the Italian island off Tunisia.
On Thursday evening, a 47-year-old man was taken into custody on suspicion of having been in contact with the perpetrator of the attack, a judicial source said at the time.
On Friday, a 35-year-old man, who is a Nice resident, and who is suspected of having met the assailant the day before the attack, was also taken into custody, a judicial source confirmed.
The third arrest followed immediately afterwards, the police source said.
