The tragedy occurred Monday in the middle of the afternoon in Geneva, Switzerland, in the Grange-Canal district. A young girl of around twelve years old was seriously injured by the explosion of a mailbox in a building, the Geneva Public Prosecutor's Office said in a brief press release on Tuesday.
According to our colleagues at 20 Minutes Switzerland, she was operated on for six hours during the night and is now in intensive care.
A link with the explosion of a garbage bag?
For the moment, the Swiss federal prosecutor's office is investigating this explosion, the origins of which are still unknown, and the case was taken up on Tuesday by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Confederation (MPC, federal prosecutor's office), competent in matters of the use of explosives.
If the circumstances of the explosion have yet to be determined, the Swiss media point out that this case is reminiscent of another incident: last August, a father was injured by the explosion of a garbage bag placed in front of the landing. his apartment in Geneva, injuring his legs. The events occurred in another district of Geneva, in Saint-Jean. But, disturbingly, still notes 20 Minutes Swiss, the latter, like the owner of the mailbox which has just exploded, worked for the same watch factory in Geneva.
