ISIS claims attack that killed priest of 85
ISIS claimed responsibility for the first attack in a church in the West, in which two attackers slit the throat of an 85-year-old priest celebrating Mass in a French church, killing him and gravely injuring one of the few worshippers present before being shot to death by police. A nun who escaped said she saw the attackers video themselves and "give a sermon in Arabic" around the altar.
One of the extremists who attacked a Normandy church has been identified as Adel Kermiche, a local youth whose parents flagged his radical behavior to authorities.
A spokesperson for the Interior Ministry said that the police managed to rescue three other people inside the church in the small northwestern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray from the terrorists.
