The knife-wielding maniac shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he attacked and killed a civilian passerby — before setting upon a group of municipal officers in Mulhouse, France.

One person has died and several are wounded following a knife attack in Mulhouse, France, according to town mayor Michèle Lutz.

As he began his attack, the 37-year-old was heard shouting, “Allahu akbar,” according to France’s antiterrorism police. The Arabic phrase, meaning “God is great,” is an everyday expression used in religious and nonreligious settings alike, but has also become a war cry in some terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists.

One person is dead and multiple police officers are injured following a knife attack in a city in Eastern France Saturday, officials confirmed.

France Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said that the latest knife attack committed by a suspect from Algeria.

France's national anti-terror prosecutors unit (PNAT) stated said the suspect first attacked the municipal police officers while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest).

A man who went on a stabbing rampage in France, killing one and wounding several others in what President Emmanuel Macron called an "Islamist terrorist act", was on a terrorism

The man injured two police officers seriously, one in the neck and one in the chest. A 69-year-old Portuguese man who tried to intervene was stabbed and killed. The suspect was subject to a deportation order because he was on a terrorism watch list,

One person died and two police officers were seriously injured in a knife attack in eastern France on Saturday that occurred during a demonstration, the local prosecutor said. Three more officers were lightly wounded in the attack in the city of Mulhouse,