6th December 2007 10:33 AM |
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Mr Jurkka |
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/e...last/index.html
PARIS, France (CNN) -- One person has been killed and at least one other seriously injured in a parcel bomb explosion in central Paris, the French Interior Ministry has told CNN.
CNN correspondent in Paris Jim Bittermann said it is believed a female secretary was killed in the blast.
The blast happened in a law office in a building on the Boulevard Malesherbes in Paris' 8th district, near the Champs-Elysees.
Lawyer Christian Charriere-Bournazel told The Associated Press: "Someone came to the office and left a package. The secretary that opened it in fact opened a parcel bomb. The parcel bomb killed her."
The building contains several law offices, including the former firm of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and an office for a foundation dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust, police said.
The target of the blast is unclear.
But Serge Klarsfeld, a former Nazi war criminal hunter who is affiliated with the Holocaust foundation, told CNN he did not believe that office was the target of the attack.
Security has remained tight around the scene of the blast. Police have blocked off the boulevard, which is lined with legal and financial offices.
Police sources told CNN affiliate BFM TV that police found and deactivated a second explosive device shortly after arriving on the scene.
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French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie is expected to arrive on the scene after abruptly ending a trip to Brussels.
In a statement Alliot-Marie said she "condemns with the greatest severity this cowardly and hateful act," Agence France-Presse reported. |
7th December 2007 05:46 AM |
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egon |
sad & fucked up.
is there any more info yet on what happened? |
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