In a “criminal act of unprecedented violence”, all the windows of Aksehir were blown out following the explosion on Wednesday evening, with emergency services swarming the area into the early hours at a time when many UK holidaymakers are in the French Alpine city.
Francois Touret de Coucy, the deputy prosecutor of Grenoble, said at the scene: “Someone came in and threw a grenade, apparently without saying a word, and ran away.".
Two people fighting for their lives are among the at least 12 who were injured after a grenade was thrown into a packed bar by a man brandishing a Kalashnikov rifle in Grenoble.
The bar – which is named after a town in the Konya Province of Turkey – was surrounded by police and firefighters by the early hours of Thursday morning, when no arrests had yet been made.
Eric Piolle, the mayor of Grenoble, condemned “with the greatest firmness a criminal act of unprecedented violence” and thanked emergency services.
