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WORLD NEWS Monday 2 october 2017
IS claims fatal stabbings of 2 women at French train station

attacking a woman and sailant was acting in re- American college students
running away, then com- sponse to IS calls to target were attacked with acid
ing back and attacking a countries in the U.S.-led co- at the same Marseille train
second woman. alition fighting IS extremists station. French authorities
The video shows the man in Syria and Iraq. said the female assailant
running toward soldiers The statement did not pro- who doused the four Bos-
who were rushing to Mar- vide details or evidence of ton College students was
seille’s Saint Charles train a direct link to the attack- suffering from a mental ill-
station. The soldiers fatally er. France has been part of ness.
shot him and both women the anti-IS coalition since French President Emman-
died of their injuries, Col- 2014 and has been repeat- uel Macron said he was
lomb said. edly targeted by IS attacks. “deeply outraged” by Sun-
Some witnesses reported Police sources told The As- day’s “barbarous” knife at-
hearing the assailant shout sociated Press that one of tack.
“Allahu akbar!” Arabic for the victims was stabbed In a tweet, Macron paid
Investigative police officer work by a body under a white sheet “God is great,” Collomb and one had her throat tribute to the French sol-
outside Marseille ‘s main train station Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017 in said. slit. The officials spoke on diers who responded “with
Marseille, southern France. A man with a knife attacked people The Paris prosecutor’s of- condition of anonymity cool heads and efficien-
at the main train station in the southeastern French city of fice, which oversees all ter- because they weren’t au- cy.”
Marseille on Sunday, killing two women before soldiers fatally ror cases in France, said it thorized to speak publicly The French government this
shot the assailant, officials said.
(AP Photo/Claude Paris) had opened a counterter- about the investigation. month decided to maintain
By CLAUDE PARIS diers.” rorism investigation into the Collomb declined to pro- the military force of 7,000
vide any details about the soldiers that was created
Marseille attack.
SYLVIE CORBET French soldiers shot the The IS-linked Aamaq news suspect or identify the vic- to protect sensitive sites af-
Associated Press man to death after the at- agency said in a statement tims. ter the deadly extremist at-
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — tacks and authorities were Sunday night that the as-
A man with a knife stabbed working to determine if he Earlier this month, four tacks of 2015. q
two women to death Sun- had links to Islamic extrem-
day at the main train sta- ism.
tion in the southern French Interior Minister Gerard Col-
city of Marseille as he re- lomb, who went to Mar-
portedly shouted “Allahu seille to meet with local au-
akbar!” — an attack the Is- thorities and troops on the
lamic State group claimed scene, said police have
was the work of one its “sol- video that shows the man

Pope in Bologna breaks bread

with migrants and urges hope

By LUCA BRUNO had a name and a story of
NICOLE WINFIELD the tragedies endured to
Associated Press arrive in Italy. He donned
BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — the same plastic ID brace-
Pope Francis pressed his let that the migrants were
campaign for Europe to wearing and led hundreds
open its doors to migrants in silent prayer for those
Sunday, visiting a migrant who died in the journey.
center in northern Italy, “I hope your hope doesn’t
breaking bread with refu- become delusion, or worse,
gees and insisting that poli- desperation,” he said.
ticians work for the most Francis, the son of Italian
marginalized people and immigrants to Argentina,
not special interests. urged European countries
During a busy day in Bo- to open humanitarian corri-
logna, Francis spent over dors to let refugees in more
an hour meeting with hun- quickly. And he pressed lo-
dreds of migrants, greeting cal leaders to integrate mi-
them one-by-one and pa- grants into their communi-
tiently posing for selfies un- ties. The visit to the migrant
der drizzly skies. He hosted center was the highlight
a luncheon of lasagna and of a day that saw Francis
turkey for asylum-seekers emphasizing some of his
and prisoners in Bologna’s top priorities: welcoming
basilica, sitting down at a migrants, having dignified
table in front of the altar. work for all and having an
He drew cheers when he ethics-based political lead-
ad-libbed that he knew the ership. It was a message
migrants were desperate that went over well in a
to have identification doc- region famous for its food,
uments, and again when culture of welcome and
he insisted that each one left-leaning politics. q