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French police issue CCTV images of suspect in Lyon bomb blast

French police have issued images from CCTV footage of the man thought to have placed and triggered a nail-bomb device on a busy pedestrian street in the south-east city of Lyon on Friday, which wounded 13 passers-by but for which no-one has claimed responsibility.

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French police have made an appeal for information in their hunt for a man suspected of planting a parcel bomb in Lyon, which injured 13 people, reports BBC News.

The device went off outside a bakery on a busy street in the heart of the country's third-biggest city.

Those hurt, including a young girl, appear to have suffered superficial injuries.

Anti-terrorist prosecutors have taken over the investigation and security has been boosted in public places.

Police released a grainy image of the suspect taken from CCTV footage.

A police source told AFP news agency the suspect appeared to be about 30 and was using a black mountain bike.

The device, which was reportedly full of screws, nuts and bolts, exploded around 5.30pm on the rue Victor-Hugo, in the historic city centre, between the Saône and Rhône rivers.

French media quoted a receptionist at a nearby hotel as saying there had been a "deafening blast".

"I saw people running and panicking and heard several cries," Alexis Saillan told BFMTV.

The last time a parcel bomb had exploded in France was in 2007 when a device killed one person and injured another in front of a law office in Paris, AFP news agency reports. Police never found the bomber

See more of this report from BBC News, with images and video.