Suspect held over latest attack on French police

A man stabbed and badly wounded a policewoman in the town of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre in western France yesterday before he was arrested in a shoot-out, the national gendarmerie force. The assailant had been caught after a manhunt that involved two police helicopters and more than 200 officers. There was a shoot-out during the arrest and two officers were shot and wounded. The stabbed policewoman was in a critical state, BFM TV reported. The assailant's motive was not immediately clear.  The incident comes a month after a female police administrative worker was knifed to death near Paris by a Tunisian national who had watched religious videos glorifying acts of jihad just before launching his attack.