A man has been decapitated and several others injured at a factory in France in what President Francois Hollande has called a terrorist attack. Two men drove into the Air Products gas factory near Lyon, officials said, before several explosions were heard. BBC was there:
One of the suspects, who was investigated by police in 2006, has been arrested. The dead man was found with Arabic inscriptions on him and an Islamist flag was found near the site. At a press conference from Brussels, Mr Hollande confirmed that two attackers had targeted the chemicals factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, crashing into it in a car.
“We have no doubt that the attack was to blow up the building. It bears the hallmarks of a terrorist attack,” he said.
Referring to the terrorist attacks in and around Paris that killed 17 people in January, he said: “We all remember what happened before in our country. There is therefore a lot of emotion.” Mr Hollande said he would leave the EU summit in Brussels this afternoon and return to France.
