Brazilian national named victim of Nice attack
Authored By rustam
Published: Oct 30, 2020, 21:47 IST | Updated: Oct 30, 2020, 21:47 IST
Simone Barreto Silva (Photo Courtesy: Simone Barreto Silva family/Reuters)
A 44-year-old Brazilian national living in France has been named as one of the victim's of the knife attack which took place in the French city of Nice on Thursday.
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The victim was identified as Simone Barreto Silva. The Brazilian foreign ministry said the victim lived in France and was a mother of three.
Two people were killed and a woman beheaded after a knife-wielding assailant attacked people in Nice's Notre-Dame church.
The attacker was apprehended by police after being shot and was taken to hospital.
The attack comes just days after a French teacher Samuel Paty, a school teacher was beheaded in a Paris suburb by an 18-year-old Chechen youth.