French official: One suspect arrested in alleged ISIS decapitation, factory explosion

Unknown persons exploded gas containers at the premises of a company in southeast France on Friday, leaving one dead and several wounded, police sources said.

French Factory Attack (photo credit: PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP)
French Factory Attack
(photo credit: PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP)
French prosecutors said on Friday that the anti-terrorist police branch was deployed to investigate an attack which left one person dead and several wounded in southeast France.
A probe has been opened for murder and attempted murder in an organized group in relation to terrorism, the Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement.
French media said a decapitated head was found at the site, along with a flag bearing Islamist inscriptions.
Unknown persons exploded gas containers at the premises of a company in southeast France on Friday, leaving one dead and several wounded, police sources said.

French President Francois Hollande said the attack was of "a terrorist nature" and that a suspect had been arrested and identified.

"The attack was of a terrorist nature since a body was discovered, decapitated and with inscriptions. As I speak, there is one fatality and two injured," Hollande told a news conference in Brussels, where he was attending an EU summit.
He added that a considerable police force had been deployed in the region and other industrial sites protected to avoid any further incidents.
In early January, Charlie Hebdo,  the Paris-based satirical news magazine that was targeted by two gunmen in one of the most brutal terrorist attacks in the history of the Fifth Republic, shocked the world in the wake of its carnage.
Seventeen victims were killed in three days of violence that began with an attack on the Charlie Hebdo weekly and ended with dual sieges at a print works outside Paris and a kosher supermarket in the city.
French security forces killed Amedy Coulibaly, 32,  after he planted explosives at a Paris deli in a siege that claimed the lives of four hostages. They also shot dead two brothers behind the Hebdo killings, Said and Cherif Kouachi, after they took refuge in the print works.