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Problem:Police say attacks by man with knife and iron bar do not appear to be terrorism 
  
 A man wielding a knife and an iron bar has attacked seven people including two British tourists in Paris. 
  
 Police arrested a suspect, whom they believed to be an Afghan national aged 31, after a group of pétanque players chased him and reportedly brought him to the ground. 
  
 Officers said the attacks on Sunday evening did not appear to be terrorism-related. 
  
 Four of the wounded were in a serious condition in hospital, one of them critical. Le Parisien newspaper said the attacker stabbed one of the British tourists in the chest and the other in the head. The Foreign Office said it was investigating the incident. 
  
 The attacks occurred at about 10.45pm (21.45 BST) on Sunday near a cinema on the popular Canal de l’Ourcq at Villette, in the 19th arrondissement of the French capital. 
  
 Police said the man attacked passersby at random. “At this stage, nothing leads us to believe these attacks are of a terrorist nature,” a police source said. 
  
 The man was reportedly unknown to the police and was not on France’s Fiche-S list of potential terrorism suspects. 
  
 One witness told BFMTV: “We saw people on the ground. We saw blood. There was a man who was running around with a knife of 40cm long. The whole thing happened quickly: it was all over in about seven minutes.” 
  
 A security guard at one of two cinemas on either side of the canal said he saw a man who had assaulted people being chased by two men who tried to stop him. “He had an iron bar in his hand which he threw at the men chasing him, then he took out a knife,” the guard said. 
  
 Another witness, Youssef Najah, 38, said he was walking along the canal near a bowling green when he saw a man running and holding a knife. 
  
 “There were around 20 people chasing him. They started throwing pétanque balls at him,” he said. “Around four or five balls hit him in the head, but they weren’t able to stop him.” 
  
 Najah said the attacker dived into an alleyway where he “tried to hide behind two British tourists. We said to them: ‘Watch out, he has a knife.’ But they didn’t react.” The pair were then attacked, he said. 
  
 One of the men who caught the suspect said he had been having a drink in the MK2 cinema cafe when he saw the man strike. 
  
 “I didn’t understand at first, then he headed for the swimming pool on the canal and there he began to hit people with the iron bar,” the witness, named only as Smaïn, told Le Parisien. 
  
 “Afterwards he stabbed someone. There were three or four youngsters who were playing pétanque and they followed him with their boules. Then began targeting him with the boules to keep him away.” 
  
 Smaïn said he, the boules players and four other people eventually surrounded the attacker. 
  
 “I had a stick, another had an iron bar … one of us hit him. He was threatening everyone with his knife. After he was hit several times he lost his balance and I hit the hand in which he was holding the knife. I then jumped on him and got him to the ground and got him to drop his weapon.” 
  
 He said the suspect said nothing after he was caught. “People were asking him ‘why did you do that?’ but he didn’t answer. Even when he was attacking he didn’t say a word.” 
  
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Evidence is marked on the pavement in Paris. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters 
  
 One of the victims of the attack said the man hit her over the head with an iron bar. The 44-year-old woman, named only as Juliette, who spent the night in hospital, said: “We were having a picnic on the Quai de la Loire facing the cinema when I heard a noise behind me and saw a guy with a huge iron bar come towards me and hit me with it right on the head. 
  
 “I collapsed on the ground. I had blood on my hand. He still had the iron bar and he was coming back towards me. I stood up and hid behind the MK2. People were running everywhere. I saw there was someone on the ground who was far more injured than me.” 
  
 There have been several knife attacks in France in recent months. Terrorism has been ruled out in most cases. On 23 August a man fatally stabbed his mother and sister and seriously injured another person in a town near Paris before being shot dead by police. Authorities said the 36-year-old had serious mental health problems and had been on a terrorism watchlist since 2016. 
  
 That attack came days after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested in the town of Perigueux after a drunken rampage with a knife in which four people were wounded, one seriously. ||||| Image copyright Reuters Image caption Evidence is marked out in north-east Paris 
  
 French police have detained a man who stabbed seven people, injuring four seriously, in an attack on tourists and passers-by in Paris. 
  
 The man, wielding a knife and iron bar, struck just before 23:00 (21:00 GMT) by a canal in Paris's 19th district. 
  
 People playing pétanque - a French bowling game - threw metal balls at the attacker, and he was overpowered. 
  
 The man, said to be Afghan, was soon arrested. The incident is currently not being treated as a terrorist attack. 
  
 Among the victims were two British tourists - police say the two men, in their fifties, suffered serious stab wounds to the chest and stomach. 
  
 The knifeman initially stabbed two men and a woman near the MK2 cinema on the Quai de Loire, along the Ourcq canal on Sunday, reports say. 
  
 Eyewitness Youssef Najah, 28, said he was walking beside the canal when he saw a man running and holding a knife about 25-30cm (10-11 inches) long. 
  
 "There were around 20 people chasing him. They started throwing pétanque balls at him," he said. 
  
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Pétanque is typically played with hand-sized hollow metal balls (file photo) 
  
 "Around four or five balls hit him in the head, but they weren't able to stop him," he added. 
  
 The man then reportedly attacked the two British tourists in a nearby street. 
  
 The British embassy in Paris told the BBC: "Our consular staff are assisting two British people who have been hospitalised in Paris, and are in contact with French medical staff who are treating them." 
  
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Police cordoned off the area after the attacks 
  
 The mayor of Paris thanked the officers of the police anti-crime squad (BAC) who arrested the man. She also thanked the passers-by who tried to stop the attacker. 
  
 A French police source said: "At this stage, there is nothing to indicate that it could be a terrorist attack." 
  
 There have been several knife attacks in France over the past few months, but few have resulted in terrorist investigations. 
  
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Solution:
At least seven people were hurt in Paris late Sunday after a man went on a rampage with an iron bar and a large knife, though police say they do not believe terrorism was the motive. Witnesses say the man, believed to be a 31-year-old Afghan national, initially stabbed two men and a woman walking near a canal, the BBC reports. He was spotted and chased by a group of people who had been playing petanque, the lawn bowling game also known as boules. The group of around 20 people pelted the man with metal petanque balls, but they weren't able to stop him from attacking two British tourists in a nearby street, witnesses say. The man was eventually brought to the ground by the petanque players. He was unconscious and injured when he was taken into custody by police. Four of the people hurt in the attack were hospitalized with serious injuries, including the two British tourists, one of them with head injuries and the other with stab wounds in the chest, the Guardian reports. "At this stage, there is nothing to indicate that it could be a terrorist attack," according to a police source, who says the man attacked "strangers in the street." Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo thanked police for arresting the man and the petanque players who intervened.