Eight Injured After Gunmen Open Fire On Crowd Outside French Mosque

French newspaper La Provence reports that two gunmen opened fire on worshippers leaving the Arrahma mosque in Avignon, Provence, at around 10.30pm Sunday night.

#Avignon : la piste de l’attentat écartée après la fusillade https://t.co/H3WzW1sjT6 pic.twitter.com/CEhAg9Spjt

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Four people sustained gunshot injuries. The family, who were on the second storey of a nearby building, sustained shrapnel injuries. 

It’s reported the youngest victim is seven years old.

The men allegedly fired a handgun and a rifle from a hatchback, and fled the scene. 

Police are not currently treating the shooting as a terror-related incident, but as a potential gang conflict.

A translation of the La Provence article, provided by The Mirror, states “the faithful who were in front of the mosque were not targeted by the two shooters, but rather young people who were grouped in the street at that moment.”

The shooting comes at a time of heightened tension in the nation. On Thursday, a man was arrested after attempting to ram his 4×4 through a crowd outside a mosque in a Paris suburb. 

This incident also comes a fortnight after a man killed one and injured nine others by driving through Muslim worshippers leaving a service in the London suburb of Finsbury Park.

Source: The Telegraph / Sky News / The Daily Telegraph.