http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/26/europe/france-normandy-church-hostage/
(CNN)[Breaking news update, published at 7:49 a.m. ET]
French President Francois Hollande tells reporters that Tuesday's deadly attack at a Catholic church in Normandy was carried out by "by two terrorists in the name of Daesh" -- another name for ISIS.
A Catholic priest was killed during an attack on a church during morning mass in Normandy on Tuesday, church officials say, in the latest violent act to roil France.
The Rev. Jacques Hamel, 84, was killed when two men took five people hostage in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Dominique Lebrun, the Archbishop of Rouen, said in a statement posted on the diocese website.
Besides the slain priest, two nuns and two churchgoers had been taken hostage, CNN French affiliate BFMTV reported.
One of the hostages was seriously wounded, and is "between life and death," French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters.
The situation ended when the two attackers were shot dead by police, Brandet said.
"The two killers came out and they were neutralized," he said.
(CNN)[Breaking news update, published at 7:49 a.m. ET]
French President Francois Hollande tells reporters that Tuesday's deadly attack at a Catholic church in Normandy was carried out by "by two terrorists in the name of Daesh" -- another name for ISIS.
A Catholic priest was killed during an attack on a church during morning mass in Normandy on Tuesday, church officials say, in the latest violent act to roil France.
The Rev. Jacques Hamel, 84, was killed when two men took five people hostage in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Dominique Lebrun, the Archbishop of Rouen, said in a statement posted on the diocese website.
Besides the slain priest, two nuns and two churchgoers had been taken hostage, CNN French affiliate BFMTV reported.
One of the hostages was seriously wounded, and is "between life and death," French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters.
The situation ended when the two attackers were shot dead by police, Brandet said.
"The two killers came out and they were neutralized," he said.