French police were on Thursday searching for an unidentified man who hurled a grenade into a bar in the southeastern city of Grenoble, injuring 12 people.
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The attacker, whose motive was still unclear, entered the Aksehir bar, situated in a rough neighbourhood of the city, shortly after 8pm on Wednesday, prosecutors said.
“Someone came in and threw a grenade, apparently without saying a word, and ran away,” prosecutor Francois Touret-de-Courcy told reporters.
Two of the wounded were still in critical condition on Thursday.
“I heard a loud bang,” said Agnes Lefebvre-Paquet, a witness in her 70s.
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“And I said to myself that it wasn’t a firecracker. I assumed it was a neighbourhood problem.”