Five people, including four children, from one family have been fatally stabbed and several others injured in a knife attack in Paris.
According to local media reports, the attacker, a relative of the family, was found at the scene unconscious with a knife and hammer by his side.
Police are investigating the attack, which took place in on Rue Emmanuel Arago in Noisy-le-Sec, an eastern suburb in Paris.
Four children and one woman were found dead following the attack. Five additional people, including the attacker, were wounded and three of them sustained serious injuries, reported TV broadcaster BFM Paris.
The broadcaster reported that on Saturday morning, a “bloodied youth” ran to a nearby bar for help and told the manager his uncle “had gone mad” and assaulted his family “with a knife and hammer”.
Police were dispatched to the scene urgently around 11am and used a battering ram to open the door into the house.
The suspect was taken to Beacon Hospital and the area has been cordoned off by national and municipal police.
Paris stabbings: Seven people in custody after attacks near former Charlie Hebdo office
Seven people are in custody after a stabbing outside the former Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris.
This includes the suspected attacker, according to French authorities.
Two people were wounded in Friday’s stabbing — a man and a woman working at a documentary production company who had stepped outside for a cigarette break.
Officials have said their injuries are not life-threatening.
Counter-terrorism officers are investigating what authorities have called an Islamic extremist attack linked to Charlie Hebdo, which lost 12 employees in an al-Qaida attack in 2015.
Eight people had been detained in total after the stabbing on Friday, but one has since been released, according to judicial sources.
Five of those in custody were detained in the Paris suburb of Pantin in a residence where the suspect is believed to have lived, a police official said.
