Emergency workers rushed to the scene to treat people wounded by the package bomb. President Emmanuel Macron called the blast an "attack" during a live Facebook interview, adding that no deaths had been reported "for the time being". 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. France has been on high alert following a wave of deadly jihadist terror attacks since 2015 which have killed more than 250 people. The most recent package bomb in France dates back to December 2007, when an explosion in front of a law office in Paris killed one person and injured another.

Source: Bangkok Post May 24, 2019 17:37 UTC