A three-year-old British girl who was stabbed in a knife attack in the French Alps will be able to leave hospital in the coming days, prosecutors have said.

French judges have also handed preliminary charges of attempted murder to the man suspected of stabbing a total of four children and two adults.

The three-year-old British girl was on holiday with her parents when she was stabbed on Thursday.

Two French children had to have surgery following the incident and a Dutch child is also in hospital.

A French man received minor injuries and a second adult was stabbed several times before they were hit by a police bullet.

The second adult needed urgent surgery but none of the victims are in a life-threatening condition.

Police do not believe the incident is terror-related but have said it would be premature to discuss motivation at this stage.

The suspect was not previously known to police or the French justice system.

He has so far refused to speak during his custody.

The suspect is a 31-year-old Syrian national who registered with French authorities as having entered the country on 26 October 2022.

He made an asylum application on 27 October 2022 but it was rejected at the beginning of June as he already had been granted the status in Sweden.

The suspect arrived in Sweden in 2013 from Turkey, left in May 2022 for Italy and Switzerland before he arrived in France.

The suspect, who is married and has a child born in April 2020 who is in Sweden, has no fixed address and lived in communal parts of an apartment block.

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