A cash machine. (illustration) - RAPHAEL BLOCH / SIPA

The attack on a cash machine left around thirty lightly injured this Friday morning in Mézières-sur-Seine, in Yvelines, we learned from a police source. "At 9.45am this morning, a person blew up the ATM (cash machine) which was located at the entrance of a Carrefour Market in the city," said a police source, confirming information from the Point .

An ATM machine attacked with explosives this morning in a supermarket in Épône. pic.twitter.com/pdb3jb8DFK

- Renaud Vilafranca (@vilafrancaR) August 28, 2020

Four passers-by had to be transferred to the hospital with superficial burns. The store was also partially gutted, debris having been thrown about twenty meters around, according to the same source.

The circumstances are not yet precise and the person, on the run, is still wanted, this source added. The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Versailles.

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