French police say a Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday outside his church in the city of Lyon, and police are hunting for the assailant.
The priest is in life-threatening condition in a local hospital after being hit in the abdomen, a police official told The Associated Press.
The attacker was alone and fired from a hunting rifle. The reason for the attack is unclear.
It comes two days after an Islamic extremist knife attack on a Catholic church in the French city of Nice that killed three people, amid tensions over the publication of caricatures mocking the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.
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