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LAST UPDATE | 24 May 2019
A PARCEL BOMB has exploded in the French city of Lyon this evening.
French media is currently reporting that at least six people have been injured. French police have locked down the Victor Hugo area of the city.
President Emmanuel Macron called the blast an “attack” during a live Facebook interview, adding that no deaths had been reported “for the time being”.
The area where the explosion occurred, on a narrow strip of land between the Saone and Rhone rivers in the centre of the city, was evacuated and cordoned off by police, according to AFP journalists at the scene.
A police source told AFP the package contained “screws or bolts” and had been placed in front of a bakery near a busy corner of two popular streets.
A man apparently in his early 30s who was spotted near the scene shortly before the attack was being sought by police, a source close to the inquiry said.
Police said eight people were wounded but none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.
Macron, in his Facebook interview, said: “It’s not for me to give a toll but it appears there are no fatalities. There have been injuries, so obviously I’m thinking of these injured and their families.”
“An eight-year-old girl was wounded…. We’re fairly relieved because apparently there were no serious injuries but on the other hand, we are certain it was an explosive device,” said Denis Broliquier, mayor of the city’s Second Arrondissement.
He said the suspect sought by police had been seen on video surveillance cameras.
A terrorism probe has been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office, which has jurisdiction over all terror cases in the country.
- with reporting from AFP
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“According to our information, the package, filled with nails, screws and bolts was laid in the street. An 8-year old girl was one of the injured.”
The world is getting worse, not better.
@The Quare Fella: awful to read and hopefully the death count stays at zero. Social media makes the world seem allot worse then it is!
@The Quare Fella:
“The world is getting worse, not better”. Incorrect, tragic events have ben occurring for thousands of years, it’s just that the world has got a whole lot smaller due to technology & the internet making you more aware.
@The Quare Fella: the world is safer than it ya been in centuries. It only seems more violent because that’s what brings in the clicks and ad revenue
@Candace: closer to home too
@The Quare Fella: stay in bed tomorrow man, safer there!
@Donwon999: I heard about someone being knocked down by a car recently about 6 kms from my home. That was close!!!!!
@Candace: spot on, the world has never been safer. Life has never been better. But the issues of every generation can’t be put into the perspective of what they haven’t experienced.
@The Quare Fella:
Hello Ireland, you’ve got a really short memory!
@The Quare Fella: “The world is getting worse not better”. More sensationalist negativity. The fact is that more incidents are being reported these days which, to me, is a positive.
I hope its not the Quakers !
@Pl O’neill: MI6 have been known to do things like this to distract from stories back home.
@Cal Mooney: is loosen that tin foil hat, it’s cutting off the blood supply
@Richard Cronin: I wouldn’t know, does it happen you often?
@Cal Mooney: of course they do…………ahem
@Pl O’neill: possibly Jacob’s or Cadburys . Cant trust those Quakers !!
@Cal Mooney: wow then I suggest if you have the evidence for this you should let us all know, don’t keep this important information to yourself
Keep letting everyone into Ireland and see what happens.
@David Fitzgerald:
David, the genie is out of the bottle and you can’t put them back in.
The damage is already done, they are here and we can’t do anything about them… Sad days ahead for Ireland…
@conor Murphy: “sad days ahead” – you poor person, better go live like a hermit then and stay off social media.
Quite worrying as I am due to be travelling there in July with my two daughters and my wife .
@William O Connor: I’m due to go to NYC myself. Thank god I missed the twin towers attack…
@Kian: I heard a pedestrian was hit by a car in Dublin last week. I had planned to go for walk tomorrow but have since cancelled it
@William O Connor: I know French people who are leaving their country because they don’t feel safe there anymore.
@Neville Bartos:
You must stay indoors, preferably under a strong kitchen table at all times
@Gus Sheridan: name them please and let me know.
Damn Jain’s are at it again!!!
@Liberal_Ireland: Jain Fonda , Thought so used to call her Hanoi Jane
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