Guards Avert Explosion Set Up by Suicidal Man
A Spaniard packed his car with explosives and set it on fire after ramming through the entrance to the Lourdes sanctuary, where 40,000 people were attending Mass, officials said.
No one was injured in the attack.
After the man, described as a local resident in his 70s, bashed through one of the portals of the complex in southwestern France, he stopped his car and set it on fire.
Security guards immediately pulled the man from the car and extinguished the flames, state prosecutor Yves Saint-Macary said.
The man told authorities he was trying to commit suicide and had no religious or political motive, Saint-Macary said.
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