A Niger national attacked with a knife two Danish journalists working in Gabon’s capital Libreville, the country’s defense minister said. The two reporters for the National Geographic channel were in a popular market for tourist souvenirs on Saturday, when a Nigerien national living in Gabon lunged at them with the knife, Defense Minister Etienne Kabinda Makaga said in a statement on Gabonese television. One reporter was left in serious condition. After his arrest, the 53-year-old suspect, who has lived in Gabon for two decades, told authorities he was carrying out a revenge attack against the United States for recognizing Israel’s capital as Jerusalem, Makaga added, giving no further explanation. “A judicial investigation was immediately opened at the public prosecutor’s office of Libreville to establish if the acts of the aggressor were isolated or a conspiracy,” Makaga said.