France tightens security as country mourns three killed in Nice church attack,
people set flowers, messages and candles in front of the Notre Dame church, in Nice, France, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. A new suspect is in custody in the investigation into a gruesome attack by a Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church. France heightened its security alert amid religious and geopolitical tensions around cartoons mocking the Muslim prophet. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
Mourners have lit candles and prayed silently to honour three people killed in a knife attack at a church, as France heightened security at potential targets amid outrage over its defence of cartoons mocking the prophet of Islam.
The attacker, who had recently arrived in Europe from Tunisia, is in hospital with life-threatening wounds, and investigators in France and his homeland are looking into his motives and connections, although authorities have said he acted alone.
