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Algeciras church attack
LocationAlgeciras, Andalusia, Spain
Date25 January 2023 (2023-01-25)
Attack type
Mass stabbing
WeaponMachete
Deaths1
Injured4
MotiveIslamic extremism[1]
San Isidro church, where a parish priest was wounded
La Palma church and the Plaza Alta, where a sexton was killed and three people wounded

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.[1]

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