Teenager has hand blown off during French school protests, official says
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A protester holds a placard reading "The media = defamation" with a caricature photo of French President Emmanuel Macron as a French high school students gather outside the Lycee Turgot high school in Paris as part of nationwide protests voicing anger ove
(Corrects attribution to teenager picking up stun grenade to La Voix du Nord, not the prefect)
PARIS, Oct 5 (Reuters) - A 15-year-old protesting against France's dilapidated and understaffed schools had his hand blown off on Monday in the northern town of Lens, the local prefect François-Xavier Lauch said.
Local newspaper La Voix du Nord reported that the teenager lost his hand after picking up a police stun grenade.
Lauch said an investigation into the incident had been opened.
(Reporting by Inti Landauro, Editing by Gabriel Stargardter and Richard Lough)
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