A WOMAN has stabbed two people with a box cutter at a supermarket in southern France, according to reports.

Authorities in Toulon have said that a customer in the store in La Seyne-sur-Mer was injured in the chest in the Sunday morning attack and hospitalised.

The attack took place in southern France, at the supermarket E.Leclerc

A woman at the market's cash register was hurt too.

Toulon prosecutor Bernard Marchal said the attacker has been detained.

He added: "This is an apparently isolated incident by a person with a history of psychiatric disorders.

"However, we cannot ruled out the possibility that she was radicalised.

Toulon prosecutor Bernard Marchal said the attacker has been detained

"There is presumption of attempted murder, and apology for crime with a terrorist connotation.

"We do not know yet if these facts are terrorists but they are in any case terrorising, because this man who had not asked anything was attacked at the cash desk of a supermarket."