bbc :

Police in central France have shot dead a man who attacked them with a knife while shouting "God is great!" in Arabic, French media report.

The man injured three police officers at Joue-les-Tours police station near the city of Tours before he was shot.

The assailant was a Burundi-born French national with a criminal record, a source close to the investigation told France's AFP news agency.

Anti-terrorism investigators were sent to the scene, the source added.

Christophe Crepin, a member of France's police union, told France 2 TV channel the attacker had had "a long knife, like a kitchen knife".

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