Two of the victims are in critical condition, the Paris police department said.
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The two attackers then fled, but one of them was arrested.
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The attack took place at a time when alleged accomplices of the 2015 terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo editorial office were being tried in Paris.
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On January 7, 2015, brothers Sheriff and Said Kuyashi in Paris killed 12 people, including well-known magazine cartoonists, in the Charlie Hebdo editorial office. A day later, an acquaintance of the brothers, Amedia Kulibali, was killed by traffic police near the French capital, and on January 9, four more people in a kosher shop in Paris.
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The killings were the first in a series of Islamist terrorist attacks in France in 2015 and 2016, killing more than 230 people. The Islamic State terrorist group took responsibility for several.
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On September 2, 14 people accused of supporting Islamic extremists who attacked the Charlie Hebdo editorial office and a kosher store began in Paris.
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