A slaughter of biblical proportions

Ferocious Slaughter at Christian Publishing House in Turkey

A ferocious slaughter occurred on Wednesday at a publishing house that distributes Bibles in Turkey, when assailants broke in, tied up three people and cut their throats, international media reported.

The massacre, that added to string of attacks apparently targeting the country's tiny Christian minority, occurred in Malatya. The city is known as a hotbed of Turkish nationalism and is the hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, the gunman who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.