IS group claims attack that killed 85-year-old priest

Two attackers slit the throat of an 85-year-old priest celebrating Mass in a French church, killing him and gravely injuring one of the few worshippers present before being shot to death by police. A nun who escaped said she saw the attackers take a video of themselves and “give a sermon in Arabic” around the altar.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, the first inside a church in the West.

Police rescued three people inside the church — including a second nun — in the small northwestern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

A regional Muslim leader said one of the two attackers was known to police, and a police official said he had tried to go to Syria. The officia said the man was under police supervision and wore an electronic bracelet. A statement published by the Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news agency said the attack was carried out by “two soldiers of the Islamic State.” Kosovo:

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