Mother, sister killed in knife attack near Paris

Paris - Daesh has claimed responsibility for the attack.

A man with severe psychiatric problems killed his mother and sister and seriously injured another woman in a knife attack on Thursday in a Paris-region town, officials said.
Police shot and killed the man soon afterward.
The Daesh group, which has a history of opportunistic claims, swiftly claimed responsibility.
French prosecutors weren't treating the attack in Trappes, west of Paris, as a terrorism case, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said.
He noted the attacker suffered from serious mental health issues although he had also been flagged for glorifying terrorism.
Collomb said that the man killed his mother at her home and stabbed the other women outside.
Still wielding the knife, he then ignored police warnings and was shot and killed, the minister said after meeting officers and prosecutors in Trappes.
He described the man as "unstable, rather than someone who was engaged, someone who could respond, for example, to orders and instructions from a terrorist organisation, in particular from Daesh".
A long-time friend of the attacker named him as Kamel Salhi, 36. The friend, Said Segreg, said Salhi had no obvious problems, didn't abuse drugs or alcohol and wasn't fervently religious.
Salhi was divorced and living with his mother, said Adama Traore, another of his acquaintances in Trappes.
The Daesh group, via its Aamaq news agency, claimed responsibility. The agency said the attack was motivated by calls from the Daesh leadership to attack civilians in countries at war with the extremist group. Hours earlier, Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi urged followers to attack enemies everywhere.