Police in Monaco and neighbouring France are searching for a man suspected of detonating a parcel bomb in the wealthy Mediterranean principality on Monday evening, wounding three people including a Ukrainian oligarch.
The device, which reportedly contained bolts and buckshot, exploded at around nine o'clock local time in a residential building near the border with France. Two adults suffered life-threatening injuries while a teenager was less seriously hurt.
Surveillance footage showed the suspect fleeing on foot across the border into the French town of Beausoleil, and as of early on Tuesday no arrest had been announced.
Peter Allen, a reporter in Paris, has the details.
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Peter Allen, a reporter in Paris, says the wounded oligarch made his fortune after the collapse of the Soviet Union and has been living a high-profile life on the French Riviera despite falling foul of Kyiv.
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