Youths torch buses around Paris

Attackers, some carrying handguns, torched buses in three overnight attacks in suburban Paris, as the nation faced the one-year anniversary of riots in France’s down-and-out, heavily immigrant neighbourhoods.

The overnight incidents left no injuries, but they panicked passengers who were forced off the buses, prompted bus drivers to refuse risky routes, and raised fears of violence around today’s anniversary of the 2005 unrest.