French police have revealed the suspect of a deadly knife attack in central Paris on Saturday evening.

The suspect, named by the media as Khamzat Asimov, is a French citizen born in 1997 in Russia’s republic of Chechnya, who was on a French watch list of people who could pose a threat to national security

Police shot dead the attacker in the busy Opéra district after he killed a man and injured four other people.

The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack.