French priest shot outside his church in Lyon as cops launch hunt for gunman
dailyrecord.co.ukshot outside his church in the city of Lyon, and police are hunting for the assailant, French police have said. The priest is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit in the abdomen, a police official told The Associated Press.The attacker was alone and fired from a hunting rifle, said the official.Police locked down the neighbourhood around the church and warned the public on Twitter to stay away.The reason for the attack is unclear.It comes two days after a knife attack at a Catholic church in the French city of Nice that killed three people, amid tensions over the publication of caricatures mocking the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.French anti-terrorist authorities were not investigating Saturday's shooting, although.
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