Two masked gunmen on a motorbike fired shots on Monday at a mosque in the Spanish territory of Ceuta on the northern coast of Africa, local officials said.<\/p>\n
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Two masked gunmen on a motorbike fired shots on Monday at a mosque in the Spanish territory of Ceuta on the northern coast of Africa, local officials said.<\/p>\n
No one was injured in the attack which happened in the early hours of Monday, a spokesperson for the Spanish central government\u2019s representative in Ceuta said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree bullets struck a mosque early this morning,\u201d he told AFP, adding police were looking for two masked gunmen on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n
A handful of worshippers were inside the Muley el Mehdi mosque, one of the most important in the tiny territory, at the time of the shooting, according to local media.<\/p>\n
Ceuta and another Spanish enclave, Melilla, sit on Morocco\u2019s Mediterranean coast, and are each surrounded on three sides by Morocco.<\/p>\n
They both have a significant Muslim population. Around 37 000 of Ceuta\u2019s 85 000 residents are Muslim, according to the Union of Islamic communities of Spain.<\/p>\n
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