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French security stand
next to the enclosed area where a decapitated body was found near the Air
Products company in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, central eastern France,
on June 26, 2015. AFP Photo/Philippe Desmaze/AFP/Getty Images
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A man has been beheaded during a suspected Islamist terror
attack in France - and a message in Arabic was reportedly found on his
head, which had been pinned to a fence.
An attacker carrying an
Islamist flag killed one person and injured several others at a gas factory in
eastern France, according to a legal source. The suspected attacker entered the
factory and set off several small explosive devices, the source said. An
attacker carrying an Islamist flag killed one person and injured several others
at a gas factory in eastern France, according to a legal source. The suspected
attacker entered the factory and set off several small explosive devices, the
source said.
The Belfast Irish Times reports:
Explosions were set off
after two attackers crashed a car, bearing banners written in Arabic, into gas
canisters at the entrance of the factory.
A security official said
the torso was found near the site of the explosion, but that the victim was not
decapitated by the blast.
Two flags, one white and
one black and both with Arabic inscriptions, were found at the scene.
A suspected attacker, who
is said to be known to authorities, has been arrested and police are searching
for anyone else possibly involved in the attack.
France's anti-terror
prosecutor said the attack was carried out by "a terrorist group".
France went on high alert
in January after extremist brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi killed 12 people -
including two police officers - in attacks on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
in Paris.
President Francois Hollande
will return to France early from a European Council summit in Brussels. He is
in constant contact with Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and the security
services.
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