 Suspect who shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ is said by police to be an Egyptian visitor who arrived in France in January on a visa from Dubai 
 
 A man who attempted a knife attack on soldiers guarding the Louvre Museum in Paris was shot and injured on Friday, highlighting France’s security and terror threat just three months before the French presidential election. Hundreds of tourists were held in secure areas of the Louvre, one of the world’s most visited museums, after the man was shot five times by soldiers on patrol outside. Wielding a knife, he ran at a group of soldiers on patrol shouting “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is greatest”. The incident, in which one soldier was slightly injured, was described by the French prime minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, as “terrorist in nature”. Two rucksacks carried by the suspected attacker were checked by bomb disposal specialists at the scene and were found not to contain explosives. Michel Cadot, the Paris police prefect, said the man had headed towards soldiers “armed with a machete” and shouting threats and “Allahu Akbar”. “There was also a second individual who was behaving suspiciously, who has also been detained, but for now there does not appear to be a link between that individual and the attack.” 
 
 About 1,250 visitors in the Louvre were ushered to safe areas inside the museum for a time after the incident. We were very, very scared.” 
 
 The incident sparked fresh warnings from politicians about the terrorist and security threat, with France still reeling from a string of terrorist attacks that have killed more than 200 people over the past two years. Paris police say a soldier has opened fire outside the Louvre Museum after he was attacked by someone, and the area... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police officers guard the access to the Louvre museum in Paris,Friday, Feb. 3, 2017.
– A French soldier shot and seriously wounded a man in a shopping mall beneath the Louvre Museum on Friday after he tried to attack a patrol and shouted "Allahu akbar," officials say. The man was carrying two backpacks and had two machetes, and when soldiers and police officers on patrol told the man that he couldn't come in with his bags, he attacked, a police union official says, per the AP. "That's when he got the knife out and that's when he tried to stab the soldier," he says. A soldier opened fire and the man was struck five times, once in the stomach, Paris Police Chief Michel Cadot says. The backpacks didn't contain any explosives, he says. One of the soldiers was slightly wounded on the scalp. Cadot says the suspect's "comments lead us to believe that he wished to carry out a terrorist incident," the Guardian reports. The French interior ministry says that anti-terrorism prosecutors are investigating the Louvre attack, but there are still no details about the identity of the attacker. Police have sealed off entrances around where the attack took place and closed the area to vehicles, snarling traffic in a busy part of central Paris. The situation is mainly calm, with confused tourists being gently shooed away by officers. Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says that a second person also was arrested, but it's unclear whether that person was linked to the attack. Brandet says about 1,000 people who were inside the actual museum during the attack were held inside in safe areas.