Webhaber
Spain shaken after deadly church attacks

Spain shaken after deadly church attacks

ALGECIRAS: The southern Spanish city of Algeciras was reeling Thursday, a day after a machete-wielding assailant stormed into two churches killing a verger and badly injuring a priest.Spanish prosecutors immediately opened a terror probe following the incident near the city's port on Wednesday evening.The attacker was arrested at the scene, with a police source identifying him as a 25-year-old Moroccan man.“Just after 7:00 pm (1800 GMT), a man entered the church of San Isidro in Algeciras, where, armed with a machete, he attacked the priest, leaving him seriously wounded,“ an interior ministry statement said.“Subsequently, he entered the church of Nuestra Senora de La Palma in which, after causing damages, he attacked the verger.”The verger, Diego Valencia, “managed to get out of the church, but was caught by the attacker outside and sustained mortal injuries,“ it said, identifying the weapon he used as a machete.The two churches are several hundred metres apart and located in an area

The U.S. Sun, Benzer haberler