- Title: FRANCE: BOMB EXPLODES ON RAILWAY LINE WEST OF PARIS
- Date: 8th October 1995
- Summary: MARLY-LE-ROI, FRANCE (OCTOBER 8, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV SIGN FOR MARLY-LE-ROI 0.06 2. GV RAILWAY BRIDGE 0.09 3. GV RAILWAY LINE 0.16 4. LV/SV RAILWAY WORKER NEAR LINE (2 SHOTS) 0.23 5. SV EQUIPMENT ON GROUND 0.26 6. SLV WORKERS STANDING NEXT TO RAILWAY LINE 0.36 7. SCU REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF COMMUNIC
- Embargoed: 23rd October 1995 12:00
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- Location: MARLY-LE-ROI, FRANCE
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- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVA9FQZ7ADSSQ19TIIZEYMWXO0XS
- Story Text: A bomb exploded on a deserted railway line west of Paris before dawn on Sunday (October 8), causing light damage, the French Interior Ministry and the state railway company said.
No one was injured as the blast in Marly-le-Roi damaged the track and a post holding overhead wires.
Jacques Dartot, regional director of communications for SNCF, the state railway company, said the explosion happened at 3:15 a.m.
(2.15 GMT), but it took the police about an hour to locate the site of the blast near the viaduct at Marly-le-Roi.
He said the blast damaged the track and a post holding overhead wires. The bomb was apparently placed in a gas canister or fire extinguisher, but was not powerful enough to derail a train.
No train was running at that time and traffic resumed later in the morning.
Authorities said it was not clear whether the blast was linked to a series of bomb attacks blamed on Islamic extremists opposed to the Algerian government.
Explosions, most of them in Paris, have killed seven people and wounded more than 130 since July, There was no immediate claim for the latest explosion.
The Armed Islamic Group (GIA), the most ruthless of rebels fighting the Algiers government, has claimed responsibility for the recent attacks and vowed to carry out more.
A bomb was planted on a high-speed TGV line near the central city of Lyon last August but failed to explode. Fingerprints found on the device led investigators to an Algerian-born petty criminal, Khaled Kelkal.
Kelkal, 24, was shot dead by gendarmes last month. A bomb exploded within hours of his funeral last Friday outside the Paris underground railway station of Maison Blanche, the name of the village where Kelkal was killed.
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