Three suspects have been arrested in connection with a parcel bomb detonated in the French city of Lyon on Friday , authorities confirmed to ABC
News.
France's Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner announced a 24-year-old man had been arrested Monday around 10 a.m. on a street in Lyon. The Paris prosecutor's office also confirmed to ABC News that two more suspects, a man and a woman, had also been arrested and placed in detention.
The bomb was detonated on Friday afternoon near a bakery on the busy Victor Hugo street in France 's third-biggest city, wounding 13. Among the wounded, 11 were treated at a local hospital. Several required operations to remove shrapnel from the blast.
Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images Police officers set a perimeter in front a 'Brioche doree' bakery before French Mayor of Lyon's visit, May 25, 2019, the day after a suspected package bomb blast. Surveillance footage released by police shows one suspect arriving on foot around 5:25 pm and leaving a paper bag on the floor that detonated about three minutes later, smashing the bakery window to pieces.
Due to the nature of the attack -- broad daylight, a crowded pedestrian area -- anti-terrorist police took over the investigation Friday evening.
(MORE: French launch manhunt for suspect behind Lyon blast that injured 13) More than 90 investigators were mobilized, as well as 30 forensic experts, as police launched a public appeal for information related to the attack. Although anti-terror police were responsible for the investigation, there hasn't yet been a claim of responsibility for the attack.
On Saturday, Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz told journalists that at the scene of the blast investigators they found screws, batteries, metal balls and a remote-triggering mechanism. The National Police force had released grainy surveillance-footage images of the suspects on Twitter as part of the effort to locate suspects.
Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images Emergency workers carry a person injured in suspected package bomb blast along a pedestrian street in the heart of Lyon, southeast France, the local prosecutors' office said, May 24, 2019. France has been on alert since a series of attacks in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more. Last December, a gunman killed several people and injured a dozen more at a Christmas Market in Strasbourg, in eastern France.
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