Police investigate Nice explosions
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Buildings hundreds of meters around the blast scene were damamged.
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NICE, France -- Two bombs have exploded at the tax and customs office in the French city of Nice, injuring 16 people and causing substantial damage.
Police say no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the building, which was the target of a thwarted bombing by a Corsican separatist group six months ago.
Local sub-prefect Abdel Aisssou told Reuters news agency the victims suffered from shock and glass wounds after windows were shattered for hundreds of meters from the scene of the blast.
They were taken to hospital but their wounds were described as slight.
The first bomb went off around 2.30 a.m. local time (0030 GMT), with the second larger explosion about 10 minutes later, police said.
Public prosecutor Eric de Montgolfier told reporters at the scene of the blasts that investigators had no specific leads.
In January this year the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) claimed responsibility for a bomb placed in front of the same building which authorities defused.
Such attacks by the FLNC and other militant Corsican groups seeking independence from France are frequent on the Mediterranean island of Corsica but rare on the French mainland.
