Source: Time
Eight people have been wounded with two hospitalized in a shooting outside a mosque in the southern French city of Avignon on Sunday night.
Citing French daily La Provence, the BBC reports that two hooded gunmen opened fire on a crowd that included worshipers leaving the city’s Arrahma mosque at 10:30 p.m. local time. Four people were injured outside the mosque and a family of four — including a seven-year-old girl — also reportedly suffered shrapnel wounds inside a nearby apartment.
Local officials said the shooting likely stemmed from a dispute between youths and was not being treated as a terrorist attack.
“The fact that it happened in the street of the religious establishment was unconnected with it,” the prosecutor said.
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