France attack: 'Man decapitated' near Lyon

A man has been beheaded and at least one other person injured in a suspected Islamist attack on a gas factory near the French city of Lyon.

There were several small explosions, possibly caused by gas canisters, at the Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, sources said.

A man has been arrested by anti-terror police, officials say.

Reports suggest two attackers drove into the factory carrying a flag with Arabic writing on it.

French President Francois Hollande will leave the EU summit in Brussels this afternoon and return to France. He is expected to give a news conference before travelling.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33284937

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good lord, I just got up, so trying to catch up...I think they said there had been 4 attacks around the world??

update when they talk about it...sad

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France, Tunisia and Kuwait...3 attacks.....

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Update: 4 Arrested

Man Decapitated in Suspected Islamist Attack on Air Products Factory in France

NBCNEWS.com | June 26, 2015, 5:03 PM ET
by ALASTAIR JAMIESON, CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and ALEXANDER SMITH

A delivery company employee with links to radical Islam beheaded his boss then tried to blow up an American-owned industrial gas plant in an apparent terror attack in France on Friday, officials said.

The onslaught began with a delivery van crashing through the gates of the Air Products plant in Saint-Quentin Fallavier, southeastern France, shortly after 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) and drove into gas cylinders, triggering an explosion.

President Francois Hollande said there was "no doubt" that the attacker intended to blow up the entire plant.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday afternoon that four people had been arrested: the suspect, his wife, his sister and another accomplice.

The suspect was able to get into the factory because he'd often made deliveries to the plant, which produces volatile industrial gases, Molins said.

Security cameras captured the van driving to the gates, and the driver ringing the buzzer, Molins said. The van was let in, and a few minutes later, it sped toward a hangar where various containers of gas were stored. Then there was an explosion, the prosecutor said.

Firemen arrived five minutes after the blast, Molins said, and came upon the 35-year-old attacker, who was trying to open containers of acetone. He refused to identify himself, but employees of the factory, who recognized him, told the firemen who he was.

Not long afterward, the decapitated body was found, and, near the van, a knife, Molins said. The victim's head was found on a railing of the factory's gates, framed by two flags, both inscribed with the "shahadah, an Islamic verse that says, "there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his messenger."

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/man-decapitated-possible-islamist-attack-french-factory-reports-n382306

Explosions hit French factory; terrorist probe opened
More than 60 killed in attacks in three countries

The Washington Post | Europe
By Anthony Faiola and Virgile Demoustier | June 26 at 8:12 PM

SAINT-PRIEST, France — Yassin Salhi was another extremist who fell through the cracks.

Like the three homegrown terrorists who staged multiple assaults in and around Paris in January, Salhi, a 35-year-old ­deliveryman who staged an audacious attack Friday at an American-owned chemical factory in southeast France, was well known to French intelligence. In 2006, he came under surveillance for his links to radical Islamist groups. But by 2008, authorities were following him less frequently, though they were still occasionally monitoring him between 2011 and 2014.

On Friday, Salhi, a father of three, drove a delivery truck onto the grounds of a chemical plant, left the severed head of his employer on a gate and then sought to spark a chain of explosions before being seized by firefighters. French authorities said two flags bearing Arabic inscriptions were found at the scene beside the severed head.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/explosions-hit-french-factory-terrorist-probe-opened/2015/06/26/442b08da-1be7-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html