<span style="color: #222222;">A knife-wielding attacker beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist attack at a church in the French city of Nice today, police and officials said.<br />'' <br />'' Nice's mayor, Christian Estrosi, who described the attack as terrorism, said on Twitter it had happened in or near the city's Notre Dame church and that police had detained the attacker.<br />'' <br />'' One of the people killed inside the church was believed to be the church warden, Estrosi said.<br />'' <br />'' The suspected knife attacker was shot by police while being detained, he is on his way to hospital, he is alive, Estrosi told reporters.<br />'' <br />'' Police said three people were confirmed to have died in the attack and several were injured.<br />''<br />''The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of a French middle school teacher Paty by a man of Chechen origin.</span>