French Police Arrest Three Over Lyon Bomb Blast

French police have arrested a 24-year old man suspected of being behind last week’s bomb blast in the central city of Lyon that injured 13 people.
French Police Arrest Three Over Lyon Bomb Blast
A policeman looks on near the site of a suspected bomb attack in central Lyon, France, on May 24, 2019. Emmanuel Foudrot/Reuters
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PARIS—French police have arrested three people, including a 24-year-old computer science student of Algerian nationality, in connection with last week’s bomb blast in Lyon that injured 13 people, authorities said.

The case is being handled as a terrorism investigation given the circumstances of the attack, committed in broad daylight, and the use of an explosive device capable of hitting a large number of people with screws and metal balls packed into a bag.