Teenagers held after nursery airgun attack

Several teenagers were today taken into custody in connection with an airgun shooting near a nursery school in the French city of Lyon, which slightly injured 11 people, a prosecutor said.

Lyon’s public prosecutor Xavier Richaud said it appeared a 17-year-old had been trying out a new gun from his parents’ apartment.

No children were injured in the shooting.

Mr Richaud said the teenagers “didn’t realise the seriousness of the events”.

He did not say how exactly many people had been detained, saying only that two or three adolescents were in police custody. It was not clear why they were not in school themselves.

Mr Richaud said a police investigation of the trajectory of the 4.5mm shots led them to the apartment.