Assailants set off two bombs nearly simultaneously in Corsica early Sunday, one of which injured two people at a military barracks, police officials said, according to AP. The first explosion ripped into a government treasury office in the resort town of Ajaccio at about 5:30 a.m. (0430GMT), the second at the barracks, blowing out windows at homes nearby and injuring an elderly woman and a five-year-old child. The French Mediterranean island regularly faces small-scale bombings, often waged by separatists targeting government buildings and vacation homes. Most attacks target empty buildings at night. «We have the impression that there is ... an escalation of the violence,» Christian Leyrit, the national government's administrator in Corsica, told LCI television. «Before, property was targeted. Today, we feel like people are being targeted, and that there is a real threat to people's lives,» he said. There were no immediate claims of responsibility, and an investigation was under way. In a statement, French Defense Minister Herve Morin expressed his «indignation in the face of the cowardice of these acts» and called them «inadmissible terrorist actions.»
