France hostage situation: two assailants killed, priest decapitated in Normandy church attack
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Police said the two assailants were shot dead during an operation to free the hostages who were being held in the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a southern suburb of Rouen located 128 kilometres north-west of Paris. The sources said a priest was killed by the assailants, who were armed with knives.