One person was killed and two were injured in a stabbing attack in a Paris suburb Friday, a French government official confirmed.

Police killed the attacker, who stabbed people in a park in the suburb of Villejuif, south of Paris, French news channel BFM TV quoted Laurent Nunez, the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior, as saying.

Loïc Travers, the Secretary of the National Police Alliance for the Ile-de-France region, told BFM TV the attack took place around 2 pm local time.

The attacker has so far only been described as male.