Algeciras church attacks

When

25 Jan 2023

Kind

Terrorist attack

Killed

1

Coordinates

36.13° N, 5.45° W

Wounded

1

2023 attacks in Andalusia, Spain

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.

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