Police and private security vehicles outside the Bank of America building in Paris's chic 8th arrondissement, where a man was arrested early Saturday as he appeared to be about to set off a homemade bomb

Police and private security vehicles outside the Bank of America building in Paris's chic 8th arrondissement, where a man was arrested early Saturday as he appeared to be about to set off a homemade bomb

French police stopped an apparent bomb attack outside a US bank in Paris early Saturday when they arrested a man about to set off a homemade explosive device, officials and sources close to the case told AFP.

The incident occurred around 3:30 am (0130 GMT) in front of a Bank of America building in the chic 8th arrondissement, a couple of streets from the Champs-Elysees.

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