Asylum-seeker injures 4 in France stabbing attack

An Afghan asylum-seeker was arrested after launching a knife attack in the sleepy southwestern French town of Perigueux, injuring four people including one seriously, police said Tuesday.

According to Press TV quoting local authorities, the incident began Monday evening with the 19-year-old man, who was known to have psychological problems lashing out at cars outside his home.

The head of the ambulance service for the area, Jean-Jacques Girard, told the regional Sud-Ouest daily that he was seen "kicking and banging a first vehicle with his feet and fists, then a second" and also "rounding on female motorists."

Two paramedics who witnessed the incident tried to calm the man down but after disappearing inside his home he returned with a knife and attacked them, leaving them with injuries to the head and neck.

He then turned on two brothers aged 64 and 68 living next door, leaving one with a perforated lung and the other with stab wounds to the back.

The man was eventually overpowered by one of the brothers and a man of Cameroonian origin, who stepped in to help wrestle his knife away.

Police arrested the man and placed him in custody on charges of aggravated violence.

They ruled out any terrorist motive.

ME