Lyon knife attack - Four people have been injured in a stabbing in France

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The knifeman stabbed five people in an attack near Lyon, France this evening.

Police said the man, thought to be 20-years-old, broke into a hotel near Place du Dauphine and stabbed a woman at the hotel restaurant.

He then ran away to a nearby McDonald’s sparking a major police operation.