Police hunt fugitive in Monaco after 3 wounded in ‘deliberate explosion’

Three people were seriously injured, two critically, in a deliberate explosion at a residential building in Monaco on Monday. Authorities are hunting a fugitive in connection with the incident.

AF Agence France-PresseSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-06-29 · 22:56 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min

Police hunt fugitive in Monaco after 3 wounded in ‘deliberate explosion’

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Three people were seriously injured, two critically, in a deliberate explosion at a residential building in Monaco on Monday. Authorities are hunting a fugitive in connection with the incident. A source close to the investigation identified one of the injured as Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Yermolaiev. The Minister of State, Christophe Mirmand, initially described the blast as an "attack" but later referred to it as a "deliberate explosion." The motive behind the explosion remains unclear.

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Authorities described the incident as a 'deliberate explosion'.

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Three people were seriously injured, two critically, in an explosion at a residential building in Monaco.

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The blast initially appeared to be 'an attack' according to the Minister of State.

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One of the wounded is Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Yermolaiev.

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Three people were seriously injured, two of them critically, on Monday in an explosion at a residential building in Monaco, which authorities described as a “deliberate” act.A source close to the investigations who asked not to be named told Agence France-Presse that one of those wounded was a Ukrainian oligarch, Vadym Yermolaiev.The territory’s Minister of State Christophe Mirmand initially told Agence France-Presse the blast at a residential building appeared to be “an attack”, but later dropped that term, describing it as a “deliberate explosion”.

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