Two attackers killed a priest and seriously wounded at least one other hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday before they were shot dead by police. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
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France, in Western Europe, encompasses medieval cities, alpine villages and Mediterranean beaches. Paris, its capital, is famed for its fashion houses, classical art museums including the Louvre and monuments like the Eiffel Tower.
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A priest has been killed during a hostage situation at a church in northern France, according to a police source. The two attackers slit his throat, police sources told Reuters.
Authorities have confirmed that a missing 20-year-old UC Berkeley student was among the dead following Thursday’s horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France.
Bernard Cazeneuve told France's RTL radio that while Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in Nice, may have been inspired by the terrorist network any "links for now have not been established by the investigation.”
The Tunisian man who drove his lorry into crowds of people in Nice researched the route in the days before the attack, French media have reported.
ROCK star Bono was caught up in the Bastille Day massacre and had to be evacuated with his “hands over his head” from a Nice restaurant by anti-terror police.
About 85 people remained hospitalized Sunday, and of those, 18 including a child were still in life-threatening condition, Health Minister Marisol Touraine told reporters on a visit to the city.
Rebab and Ibrahim Bouhlel said there was no sign of unusual behavior or Islamist radicalization when he called.
AN eight-month-old baby lost in the chaos in Nice has been tracked down on Facebook and reunited with his parents.
Many children were among the dead and dozens more were among the wounded, according to French officials.
Countries across Europe are strengthening security following the Nice terror attack which claimed the lives of at least 84 people. It comes as France extends its state of emergency for an additional three months.
He added: "It’s still the same Nice that I know and love, just trying to recover after reeling from that attack yesterday."
First there was #JeSuisCharlie, then #JeSuisParis and now #JeSuisNice has emerged on social media in response to an attack in the southern French city of Nice that has left at least 80 people dead and many injured.
THE world has watched on in horror as the most visited country on the planet has rapidly become a hotspot for bloody terror attacks.
The terror attack in Nice has shocked the world, but rough figures reveal something even more appalling – far more people have been killed by terrorists in France under president Hollande in the last two years than in the previous 100.
Troops have been deployed to the Nice airport and evacuation started from the luggage area.
While French police are yet to connect the dots in the latest terrorist attack to hit the European country, the truck massacre in Nice demonstrated that encroaching electronic surveillance doesn’t protect from lone wolf attacks, a former MI5 agent told RT.