Rabat- At approximately 11:00 am on the morning of Friday June 26th, French police found a decapitated male body and a flag covered in Islamist inscriptions near the US owned Air Products Gas Company building, following an attack on the factory at 10:00 am in the southeastern region of Saint-Quentin Fallavier.
Rabat- At approximately 11:00 am on the morning of Friday June 26th, French police found a decapitated male body and a flag covered in Islamist inscriptions near the US owned Air Products Gas Company building, following an attack on the factory at 10:00 am in the southeastern region of Saint-Quentin Fallavier.
As of 12:00 pm, the Dauphiné Libéré newspaper reports that the decapitated victim has been identified as the manager of a transport company located 20 miles from the attack, who was on factory grounds because of a delivery.
Police say an attacker, now arrested and identified as 35-year-old Yassine Salim, was seen carrying an Islamist flag at the time of the attack, where one person was killed and two others were injured.
French police report that the attack began “mid-morning when two men crashed a car into the entrance of a gas factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in southeastern France, hitting gas canisters and touching off an explosion.”
“The suspect entered the factory and set off several small explosive devices,” said a police source.
“According to the initial finding of the inquiry, one or several individuals on board a vehicle drove into the factory. An explosion then took place,” said the source.
The French ministry confirms that the second suspect was killed in the attack by a firefighter.
The ministry has commented on the attacker as well, reporting that the arrested suspect was under suspicion for links with a radical Salafist group.
French president François Hollande has expressed with certainty that this was a terrorist attack with intentions of blowing up the building.
Terrorist attacks also occurred on the Imperial Marhaba hotel in the Tunisian beach resort of Sousse this morning, where at least 27 people, mostly tourists, were murdered.
One gunman armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle lay where police had shot him dead, reports the Guardian.
The details of the attack are still being investigated.
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