(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs is checking whether Filipinos were among those injured in an explosion that rocked Lyon, France on Friday.
Ambassador to France Ma. Theresa Lazaro said the embassy and the Honorary Consul in Lyon are in touch with local authorities to check if Filipinos were among the at least twelve injured in the blast at the corner of rue Victor-Hugo and rue Sala.
The DFA said it was monitoring, through the Philippine Embassy in Paris, the developments so far.
Police were so far hunting a suspect following the blast that took place just two days before the country’s fiercely contested European parliament elections.
The president, Emmanuel Macron, called Friday’s explosion, apparently from a package packed with shrapnel and placed in the street, an “attack” and sent his interior minister, Christophe Castaner, to Lyon. With a report from Agence France Presse