Al Jazeera correspondent Jamal El Shayyal discusses the significance of the recent deadly church attack in Egypt, and how it relates to the general security of the country and why there was an angry backlash.
French President Francois Hollande says the two armed men who took hostages at a church in Normandy had claimed allegiance to ISIL The men killed a priest and injured another person. Al Jazeera’s Emma Hayward reports.
A priest has been killed during a hostage situation at a church in northern France, according to a police source. The two attackers slit his throat. Both attackers were killed by police snipers after running out of the church at one point during the standoff, an interior ministry spokesman said.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Attack Hits Northern Nigeria Church
Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerian president, has condemned an attack on a church in northern Nigeria, and has vowed to crush terrorists in his country. At least eight people were killed when a suicide bomber drove a car filled with explosives into the church packed with Sunday worshippers. Two two more people died later in reprisal attacks. Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan reports.
