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dipsydoodle

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Wed Mar 21, 2012, 04:39 AM Mar 2012

Bomb explodes near Indonesia's Paris embassy -Indonesian minister

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris on Wednesday, breaking windows but causing no casualties, Chief Political and Security Minister Djoko Suyanto said.

The package was discovered by an embassy employee who removed it from the building in Rue Cortambert, in Paris's elegant 16th district, according to a French police source.

The device, which involved a gas cylinder, exploded shortly afterwards, damaging windows and cars but injuring no one, the source told Reuters in Paris.

"Indonesia's embassy in Paris has reported an explosion in one intersection near the embassy at 5.20 local (Paris) time .... It is not certain what the target of the bomb was," Suyanto said.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/21/uk-france-indonesia-bomb-idUKBRE82K0A220120321

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