PARIS, March 24: A bomb exploded on Sunday at noontime in Lille, in front of a Muslim butchery, wounding six persons.

The bomb, which was home-made, had been placed under a stroller located in front of the butcher’s shop. The woman who’d just parked the stroller in order to enter the butchery had luckily taken her child with her inside, otherwise say police officials he certainly would have been killed.

As for the man who placed the bomb, he was able to escape but was seen by a number of eyewitnesses.

For the moment, police refuse to characterize the bombing as anti-Muslim, but Lille — a major metropolis located 130 miles north of Paris — having an important Muslim population, the possibility remains strong, they say, that an Arab public was particularly targeted.