Priest shot in Lyon, assailant flees
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Security and emergency personnel in Lyon at the scene where an attacker shot an Orthodox priest, on Oct 31, 2020.
PHOTO: AFP
PARIS • An Orthodox priest was shot and injured yesterday at a church in Lyon by an assailant who then fled, a police source said.
The priest was fired on twice around 4pm local time as he was closing the church, and was being treated on site for life-threatening injuries, the source said.
The incident came two days after the Nice attack, and two weeks after a teacher was beheaded by an 18-year-old Chechen in a Paris suburb.
It was not immediately clear if the latest attack was religiously motivated.
REUTERS
