Nurse who was attacked yesterday Monday by a man holding a knife inside her hospital Wrensin eastern France, succumbed to her injuries overnight, the prosecutor’s office announced today, calling it “homicide”.

“An autopsy has been scheduled,” she noted in her statement.

“I have just learned with great sadness of the death of Karen, a 38-year-old nurse who was violently attacked yesterday at the Rennes CHU,” tweeted French Health Minister Francois Bron, who went to the hospital where the attack took place on Monday.

A doctor’s assistant was also injured in the attack, which took place yesterday afternoon at the hospital when a 59-year-old man with psychiatric problems attacked the two women with knife.

He was arrested immediately after he tried to escape and “appears to have acted without motivation and did not have a hospital appointment,” the Rennes prosecutor said in a statement.

“He appears to be in serious trouble and has been under enhanced legal support for many years,” he added.

The man had previously been charged with rape, but was acquitted in June 2022 after being found not criminally responsible.