36° DNS FOG, NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania
Terrorists sought in deaths
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 9:00 p.m.
Mauritanian prosecutors on Tuesday called the brutal slaying of four French tourists a terrorist act and said security forces were hunting three men suspected of links to a regional al-Qaida terror network.
Gunmen opened fire Monday on the tourists, who were members of the same family, while they were picnicking on the side of a road near Aleg, a small town 150 miles east of Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, police said.
Though authorities initially thought the tourists had been robbed, subsequent investigations have shown they were not, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
The sole survivor, the family's father, was seriously injured and flown to neighboring Senegal where he was hospitalized in intensive care.
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