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Man beheaded, Islamist flag raised in deadly attack on French factory
POSTED: 26 Jun 2015 17:15 **UPDATED: 26 Jun 2015 18:10
The French city of Grenoble, near where the factory attack occurred - file.*(Photo: AFP/Philippe Desmazes)
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SAINT-QUENTIN-FALLAVIER, France: *An attacker carrying an Islamist flag killed one person and injured several others Friday (Jun 26) at a gas factory in eastern France, according to a legal source.
The suspected attacker entered the factory and set off several small explosive devices, the source said.*
French authorities found a man's decapitated head covered in Arabic writing attached to the gates of the factory, legal sources said.
The suspected attacker, reported by Sky News to be a 30-year-old, was arrested and was known to intelligence services, the sources said. Authorities are in the process of investigating whether he had an accomplice.
"According to the initial findings of the enquiry, one or several individuals on board a vehicle, drove into the factory. An explosion then took place," said one of the sources.
Sky News reported that a witness said the man arrested claimed to be a member of Islamic State.
"The decapitated body of a person was found nearby the factory but we do not yet know whether the body was transported to the place or not," added this source, adding that a "flag with Arabic writing on it was found on the scene."
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls ordered heightened security measures at "sensitive sites" near the site.
Valls, who is on an official trip to South America, asked Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to head to Saint-Quentin Fallavier, the site of the attack, the premier's entourage said.
The attack came nearly six months after the Islamist attacks in and around Paris that killed 17 people in January that started with a shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
- CNA/jb
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Man beheaded, Islamist flag raised in deadly attack on French factory
POSTED: 26 Jun 2015 17:15 **UPDATED: 26 Jun 2015 18:10
The French city of Grenoble, near where the factory attack occurred - file.*(Photo: AFP/Philippe Desmazes)
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SAINT-QUENTIN-FALLAVIER, France: *An attacker carrying an Islamist flag killed one person and injured several others Friday (Jun 26) at a gas factory in eastern France, according to a legal source.
The suspected attacker entered the factory and set off several small explosive devices, the source said.*
French authorities found a man's decapitated head covered in Arabic writing attached to the gates of the factory, legal sources said.
The suspected attacker, reported by Sky News to be a 30-year-old, was arrested and was known to intelligence services, the sources said. Authorities are in the process of investigating whether he had an accomplice.
"According to the initial findings of the enquiry, one or several individuals on board a vehicle, drove into the factory. An explosion then took place," said one of the sources.
Sky News reported that a witness said the man arrested claimed to be a member of Islamic State.
"The decapitated body of a person was found nearby the factory but we do not yet know whether the body was transported to the place or not," added this source, adding that a "flag with Arabic writing on it was found on the scene."
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls ordered heightened security measures at "sensitive sites" near the site.
Valls, who is on an official trip to South America, asked Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to head to Saint-Quentin Fallavier, the site of the attack, the premier's entourage said.
The attack came nearly six months after the Islamist attacks in and around Paris that killed 17 people in January that started with a shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
- CNA/jb
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