BLAST KILLS FOUR ON PARIS METRO

Frenchanti-terrorisminvestigators are examining the scene of a rush-hour explosion that killed four people and injured about 60 at a Paris underground station near the Notre Dame Cathedral. Prime Minister Alain Juppe, at the station, said it was uncertain whether the blast came from a bomb, "but the presumptions are very strong." Some witnesses reported the strong smell of gunpowder after the explosion. Several victims, faces covered with blood, were carried off in stretchers; a nearby restaurant was turned into a rescue base to treat minor injuries. "I saw six or seven people who were wounded; bleeding from their faces and legs. It was scary," one witness told the Associated Press. "Tonight I take the bus." Paris was last hit by a wave of bombings in 1986, when terrorists -- apparently an Iranian-backed Lebanese group -- killed 13 people and injured more than 100.