Parisian police discover dynamite in store

POLICE acting on a warning yesterday found a bundle of dynamite inside a Paris department store at the height of the Christmas season, as a group demanding that France withdraw from Afghanistan claimed responsibility.

Sticks of dynamite tied together but without a detonator were found in the Printemps department store, a favoured shopping destination for tourists.

Interior minister Michele Alliot-Marie said the explosives appeared “relatively old”. Police said they were found in the third floor restroom of the menswear department. Five sticks were found together, officials said.