PARIS (Reuters) – Two extra males have been arrested in reference to a knife assault that left three useless at a church in Good, bringing the variety of individuals in custody to 6 as investigators have a look at the suspected assailant’s final recognized contacts, a French police supply mentioned.

The newest arrests occurred on Saturday, the supply mentioned.

An assailant shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Biggest) beheaded a girl and killed two different individuals in a church in Good on Thursday, in France’s second lethal knife assault in two weeks with a suspected Islamist motive.

The suspected attacker, a 21-year-old from Tunisia, was shot by police and is now in crucial situation in a hospital.

The newest arrests within the case concerned two males from the city of Grasse, close to the southern French coast near Good, BFM TV reported.

France’s chief anti-terrorism prosecutor has mentioned the person suspected of finishing up the Good assault had arrived in Europe on Sept. 20 in Lampedusa, the Italian island off Tunisia.

Investigators in Italy are additionally stepping up enquiries in regards to the suspected assailant’s actions and contacts on the island of Sicily. They imagine he could have hung out there after going from Lampedusa to Bari in early October on a ship used to quarantine migrants, judicial sources mentioned.

In Bari, he’s believed to have been handed an expulsion order obliging him to depart Italy inside per week, the judicial sources mentioned. Investigators are wanting into the chance the suspected attacker stayed within the Sicilian city of Alcamo for a 10 day interval, the sources added.

(Reporting by Sarah White and Nicolas Delame, Extra reporting by Wladimiro Pantaleone in Palermo; Modifying by Toby Chopra)