France Knife Attack – level 1

14-04-2020 07:00

On Saturday, a man attacks people in a shopping mall in France. The man kills two people. He uses a knife. He injures five other people. The police catch the man near the shopping mall. He speaks Arabic. He prays to God.

French authorities do not say the name of the man. They say that the man is from Sudan. He is 33 years old.

Police go to his home. They find some documents. The documents say that people in France do not believe in God.

Police say that the man does the attack alone. Police believe that the man does not belong to any terrorist groups.

Difficult words: shopping mall (a big building with many different shops), pray (to speak to God), terrorist group (a group of people who do very bad things to other people, usually because of religion or government).

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