France: Castaner visits Lyon after knife attack

France's interior minister Christophe Castaner visited the scene of a knife attack which took place earlier on Saturday in Lyon.

A man wielding a knife attacked residents venturing out to shop in a town under lockdown south of the French city, killing two people and wounding others, prosecutors said.

The anti-terrorism prosecutor's office told The Associated Press the attack took place at 11 a.m. (0900 GMT) in a commercial street in Romans-sur-Isere.

The alleged attacker was arrested by police nearby, shortly after the attack. Prosecutors did not identify him. They said he had no documents but claimed to be Sudanese and to have been born in 1987.