Algeciras church attacks
On 25 January 2023, a sexton was killed and four people, including a parish priest, were injured in a machete attack at two churches in Algeciras in the Spanish region of Andalusia. Police arrested Yassine Kanjaa, a 25-year-old Moroccan who had been living undocumented in Spain since 2019 and was under orders to leave. The attack was treated as Islamic terrorism by the Audiencia Nacional.
| Algeciras church attack | |
|---|---|
| Location | Algeciras, Andalusia, Spain |
| Date | 25 January 2023 |
Attack type | Mass stabbing |
| Weapon | machete |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Injured | 4 |
| Motive | Islamic extremism |
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