Priests in St Etienne du Rouvray on church attack

(26 Jul 2016) ++CORRECTION: CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE AGE OF THE PRIEST WAS 85, NOT 86, BASED ON A NEW ACCOUNT FROM THE FRENCH BISHOPS CONFERENCE++

Clergymen arrived at the scene of the attack at a French church on Tuesday, saying it was an attack on "the whole of humanity".
Two attackers took hostages inside the church during morning Mass near the city of Rouen, killing an 85-year-old priest by slitting his throat before being shot and killed by police, French officials said.
The Islamic State group (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Vicar General of Rouen Diocese Philippe Mahut described the priest as "someone very keen, very zealous, always ready to help".
Another person inside the church in Normandy was seriously injured and is hovering between life and death, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Police managed to rescue the only three other people inside the church in the small northwestern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, he told reporters.


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