Escalation: Police grenade maims 15-year-old in Lens
A 15-year-old boy lost his hand in Lens, northern France, on Monday morning during clashes between students and police. The blast came from a sting-ball police stun grenade. He was rushed to a nearby hospital and his life is not in danger.
Accounts differ on whether he picked up the device before it detonated. The incident came amid nationwide student protests over school building conditions that shut or disrupted roughly 500 schools.
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