Priest Dead, Two Attackers Killed After Assault on Church in Normandy, France Investigators are treating the assault as a terror attack, Interior Ministry spokesman saysBy Noemie Bisserbe and Inti Landauro
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A priest was killed and another person was seriously wounded in an attack on a church in a northern French town, police said Tuesday.
Two men entered the church in Saint Etienne du Rouvray in Normandy and took five hostages, including the priest, who was found with his throat cut, police said.
Police surrounded the church and shot the two men as they exited the building, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.
The assault is being treated as a terror attack by investigators, said Paris prosecutors in a statement.
France’s President Francois Hollande and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve are on their way to the small town where the attack took place, government officials said.
The attack comes less than two weeks after the killing of 84 people assembled on France’s Bastille day in Nice on the French Riviera.
This is a developing story and will be updated shortly.
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