One individual was killed and one other severely injured in an assault carried out by an individual with a bladed weapon at a church within the southern metropolis of Algeciras on Wednesday, Spain’s inside ministry mentioned.
Spain’s National Court mentioned a decide has opened an investigation right into a doable act of terrorism over the assault.
The attacker was arrested and is within the custody of Spain’s National Police. The ministry didn’t establish the attacker.
It mentioned that the one assault sufferer was killed exterior the church of San Isidro, whereas the opposite individual was wounded contained in the church.
Police work subsequent to the physique of a person killed in Algeciras, southern Spain, on Jan. 25, 2023. (Nono Rico/Europa Press by way of AP)
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Police are investigating the incident, the ministry mentioned, to find out the “nature of the assault.” It provided no additional element on the weapon that was used or on the attacker’s possible motive.
Native media mentioned the lifeless individual was a priest.
The secretary normal of Spain’s Episcopal Convention, Francisco García, wrote on Twitter that “I’ve acquired the information of the incident in Algeciras with nice ache.”
“These are unhappy moments of struggling, we’re united by the ache of households of the victims and for the Diocese of Cádiz,” he added.