French police arrest two Lyon explosion suspects

Source: Xinhua| 2019-05-27 18:23:11|Editor: Yamei
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PARIS, May 27 (Xinhua) -- French police detained two suspects involved in an explosion in southeastern city of Lyon at the weekend.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner confirmed the first arrest Monday in a Twitter message by saying that, "Package bomb in Lyon: a suspect has been arrested."

Identified as a 24-year-old student in an engineering school, the suspect, unknown to the police, was detained on Monday morning while he was getting off a bus in central Lyon, the city mayor and also ex-interior minister Greard Collomb told news channel BFMTV.

Local reports said later that a second suspect was arrested.

A home-made bomb explosion injured at least 13 people in Lyon on Friday afternoon.

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