One person has died and several are wounded following a knife attack at a town market in eastern France, in what French authorities have described as an act of terror.

French anti-terrorism prosecutors say a knife attack in eastern France has left one dead and at least two wounded

French police have made several arrests since a man went on a stabbing rampage, killing one and wounding several others in what President Emmanuel Macron called an "Islamist terrorist act", anti-terror prosecutors told AFP Sunday.