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'Islamic State' attacker kills mother and sister in Paris knife attack

An ‘Islamic State‘ attacker has killed his mother and sister and seriously injured another woman in a knife attack just west of Paris.

The unidentified knifeman, who was flagged by French authorities as a suspected radical, stabbed the women in Trappes, in the Yvelines region, hours after an IS leader urged followers to ‘attack enemies everywhere by all means’.

The third victim, a passer-by who was gravely injured in the attack, was also a woman, a French official said.

<em>An Islamic State knife attacker killed his mother and sister in Trappes (AP)</em>
An Islamic State knife attacker killed his mother and sister in Trappes (AP)
 French police secure a street after a man killed two persons and injured an other in a knife attack in Trappes. (Reuters)
French police secure a street after a man killed two people and injured an other in a knife attack in Trappes (Reuters)
<em>Hooded police officers watch out while French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb answers reporters after a knife attack (AP)</em>
Hooded police officers watch out while French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb answers reporters after a knife attack (AP)

Officials confirmed she was not a member of the family.

Authorities did not rule out a family dispute and prosecutors were not immediately treating the attack as a terrorism case.

Jean-Jacques Brot, the top government administrator in Yvelines, tweeted that the attacker in the town of Trappes was ‘neutralised’ and had died.

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Islamic State, via its Aamaq news agency, claimed responsibility.

The agency said the attack in Trappes was motivated by calls from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to attack civilians in countries at war with the extremist group.

Hours earlier, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urged followers to attack enemies everywhere by all means, including in knife attacks.

<em>Police monitor the area near the attack in Trappes, west of Paris (Reuters)</em>
Police monitor the area near the attack in Trappes, west of Paris (Reuters)
<em>The location of the attack in Trappes, France (AFP)</em>
The location of the attack in Trappes, France (AFP)
<em>French police guard the scene of the knife in the town of Trappes (Reuters)</em>
French police guard the scene of the knife in the town of Trappes (Reuters)

Police officials said the man was flagged in a government database of suspected religious and political extremists.

The French interior minister said the man had ‘serious psychiatric problems’.

Gerard Collomb said the attack is not being treated as a terrorist case for the moment, despite the claim of responsibility by IS.

Mr Collomb said police shot and killed the man after he came out of his mother’s house wielding a knife and ignored their warnings.