'Terror link' to murder of tourists

Mauritanian prosecutors called the brutal Christmas Eve murder of four French tourists a terrorist act and said security forces were hunting three suspects who they said belonged to a regional al Qaida-linked terror network.

Gunmen shot the tourists as they picnicked on the side of a road near Aleg, a small town 150 miles east of Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, police said. The attackers then fled south toward the Senegalese border, police said.

The sole survivor, the family's father, named as Francois Tauler, was seriously injured and flown overnight to the main hospital in Senegal's capital, Dakar, where he was in an intensive care unit.

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