Marseille: Eight people including a girl were lightly wounded late Sunday in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southeast French city of Avignon, the prosecutor’s office said, ruling out terrorism. More From Livemint »“From what we know this evening, the mosque was not targeted. The fact that it happened in the street of the religious establishment was unconnected with it,” the prosecutor said, ruling out terrorism. The shooting comes a few days after a man on Thursday attempted to drive his car into worshippers outside the Creteil mosque in southeast Paris. Some Muslim officials have described the Paris incident as an attack and called on the authorities to “strengthen protection of places of worship”.

Source: Mint July 03, 2017 02:37 UTC