A 19-year-old man was killed and another eight people were wounded, three seriously, in a knife attack Saturday in the French city of Lyon, a regional official and emergency services said. A man armed with a knife and a skewer carried out the attack in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, in southeastern France. Police have arrested the suspected attacker and placed him in custody for murder and attempted murder, the Lyon prosecutor's office told AFP. A police source said the man was an Afghan asylum-seeker.

While initial reports from local officials suggested police were looking for a second man, a police source and the prosecutor's office subsequently said the suspect acted alone. The reasons for the attack were still not clear. The national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has been informed but has not taken charge of the case at this stage.

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