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.

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.”

“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.