SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France: A French jihadist who was under house arrest on terror charges took part in a church attack in which a priest was killed on Tuesday, further inflaming tensions over security failures in the violence-weary nation.

Adel Kermiche, 19, was one of two attackers who stormed a Catholic church in the northern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning mass, slitting the throat of an 86-year-old priest, Jacques Hamel, and leaving a worshipper with serious injuries, said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins.

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