France, Feb. 13 -- France's Health Minister, Yannick Neuder, was due to visit Grenoble University Hospital on Thursday to visit the victims of Wednesday night's grenade attack on a bar in the south of the city which left 12 people injured, two critically.

Ahead of Neuder's arrival, police were continuing their search for an unidentified man who hurled the grenade into the Aksehir bar and fled.

"I heard a loud bang," said Agnes Lefebvre-Paquet, a witness in her 70s. "And I said to myself that it wasn't a firecracker. I assumed it was a neighbourhood problem."

Prosecutor Francois Touret-de-Courcy said the man may have also been carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle when he went into the bar in the Olympic Village neighbourhood.

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