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Normally safe principality left reeling from apartment blast that also injured Vadym Iermolaiev’s wife and child

• ‘He isn’t political’: the Ukrainian-born oligarch targeted by a Monaco bomber

An international search is under way for a suspected bomber after a Ukrainian tycoon and his family were injured in an explosion in Monaco in an unprecedented attack that has shaken the normally ultra-safe principality.

Stéphane Thibault, Monaco’s public prosecutor, told reporters that a man entered an apartment block on Monday evening, left a package in the lobby and walked away. Moments later, as three occupants of a ground-floor flat approached the entrance, the package exploded, he said.