Eight injured by car bomb

BASTIA, Corsica A car bomb which exploded in Bastia, Corsica, yesterday injured at least eight people, two of them seriously, …

BASTIA, Corsica A car bomb which exploded in Bastia, Corsica, yesterday injured at least eight people, two of them seriously, police said. It exploded in front of a security guard firm run by Mr Charles Pieri, a leader of the Cuncolta Naziunalista, legal front of the banned Corsican National Liberation Front. The seriously injured people were a nationalist leader and an aide.

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