One person has been killed and at least 12 others injured in an attack on a gas factory in a small town in southeastern France. Officials believe it was a terrorist attack: a flag of the self-declared Islamic State was found at the factory near Grenoble.
Police have arrested one suspect who is being questioned about the attack, which also included an explosion at the facility operated by Air Products, an American company whose headquarters are in Pennsylvania.
From Calais, NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports:
"French media are reporting that two men rammed their car through the barrier of an industrial gas plant this morning. An explosion soon followed. French media is reporting one man has been killed and decapitated. His head was placed at the entrance of the building next to an Islamic State flag. "Officials say more than a dozen workers from the factory are wounded. "Residents of the small town of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier interviewed on television expressed shock that such an attack could take place in their tiny town."
France's interior minister has ordered increased security at other potential targets around the country; French President Francois Hollande is returning home today from a European Union economic summit in Brussels.
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