jackpot city casino Grenade blast in French bar wounds 12 – officials

A police car is parked near the scene of an attack in southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016. (AP file photo)

Twelve people were wounded when a grenade exploded Wednesday in a bar in the city of Grenoble in southeastern France, officials said.

“Someone threw a grenade” inside the bar in the Olympic Village neighbourhood, built when the picturesque city hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics, said prosecutor Francois Touret-de-Courcy.

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He said the wounded included two people in critical condition, adding that investigators had not yet identified a motive but did not believe it was a “terrorist attack.”

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“I condemn in the strongest possible terms this criminal act of extraordinary violence,” Mayor Eric Piolle wrote on X.

Police confirmed the explosion had been caused by a thrown grenade.

This was the remark of Kristalina Georgieva, who has just started her second five-year term as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Thursday, before the IMF and the World Bank’s annual gathering of financial leaders in Washington next week.

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary for Integrated Sciences Carlos Primo David during a forum organized by the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) said the DENR rolled out a digital application process in three regions of the country.

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