An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The two attackers, who said they were from the so-called Islamic State (IS), slit Fr Jacques Hamel's throat during a morning Mass, officials say.
BBC: French priest killed by two ‘IS soldiers’
This photo taken on July 26, 2016 shows a partial view of the Saint-Etienne church in the Normandy city of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray where a priest was killed today in the latest of a string of attacks against Western targets claimed by or blamed on the Islamic State jihadist group.
