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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAvignon shooting: Eight injured near French mosque
Source: BBC
Avignon shooting: Eight injured near French mosque
3 July 2017 Europe
Eight people have been injured in a shooting outside a mosque in southern France, officials have confirmed.
Worshippers leaving the Arrahma mosque in Avignon were approached by two hooded suspects at about 22:30 local time (21:30 GMT) on Sunday.
The suspects, carrying a handgun and a shotgun, arrived in a Renault Clio before opening fire on the crowd, La Provence newspaper reports.
Police said they were not treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
Four people were wounded outside the mosque and a family of four - including a seven-year-old girl - also suffered injuries from shrapnel while in their apartment, located some 50 metres away, La Provence said, citing a source.
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3 July 2017 Europe
Eight people have been injured in a shooting outside a mosque in southern France, officials have confirmed.
Worshippers leaving the Arrahma mosque in Avignon were approached by two hooded suspects at about 22:30 local time (21:30 GMT) on Sunday.
The suspects, carrying a handgun and a shotgun, arrived in a Renault Clio before opening fire on the crowd, La Provence newspaper reports.
Police said they were not treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
Four people were wounded outside the mosque and a family of four - including a seven-year-old girl - also suffered injuries from shrapnel while in their apartment, located some 50 metres away, La Provence said, citing a source.
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Avignon shooting: Eight injured near French mosque (Original Post)
Eugene
Jul 2017
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ck4829
(35,039 posts)1. It's a "not-terrorist attack"
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. Not to make light of this attack, but why mention a Renault Clio?
Nationalistic environmentalist terrorists? I don't understand why the paper would even bother mentioning the car they used. What are they trying to say? Weird!
JI7
(89,241 posts)3. i don't see anyting wrong or unusual about that.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)4. It's one of the few means of identifying them