ISIS claims responsibility for France church attack
French soldiers and a police officer blocked access to the scene of an attack in a church in St.-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France, on Tuesday.
(IraqiNews.com) BAGHDAD – An 84-year-old French priest was killed by two armed attackers at a church in Normandy on Tuesday, which the French president François Hollande described as an Islamist terrorist incident.
Two men with knives stormed into a church in northern France on Tuesday morning and took several hostages. They also slit the throat of an 84-year-old priest and critically injured another person, before they were shot dead by the police, officials said.
The ISIS-linked Amaq news agency said that the two hostage-takers were ‘soldiers of the Islamic State, who ran the operation responding to the calls to target the states participating in the international coalition’.