Paris – Two men in their seventies were on Monday seriously injured in a shooting incident at a mosque in the southern French city of Bayonne, local authorities say.
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The victims surprised the attacker while he was trying to set the door of the mosque on fire, and he then opened fire on them, authorities say in a statement published on Twitter.
The attacker then set fire to a vehicle while leaving, but was arrested shortly afterwards by police at his home, the statement from the Pyrenees-Atlantiques prefecture says.
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The victims are receiving treatment at the hospital, the prefecture says. (dpa/NAN)
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