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One killed by Paris parcel bomb | One killed by Paris parcel bomb |
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A parcel bomb explosion has killed one person and injured at least five others at law offices in central Paris. | |
The former law firm of President Nicolas Sarkozy is located in the same building as the office where the device exploded, at 52 Boulevard Malesherbes. | |
A lawyer and his secretary were among those injured, the French news agency AFP reports. | A lawyer and his secretary were among those injured, the French news agency AFP reports. |
The building also houses The Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah - a Holocaust remembrance body. | |
French officials said the parcel bomb exploded on a different floor from the one where Mr Sarkozy's old firm is located. | |
It was addressed to the office of Catherine Gouet-Jenselme, AFP reported. It was not clear who Ms Gouet-Jenselme was, or why she may have been the target of an attack. | |
French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie was rushing back from Brussels to visit the scene. |