On 31 December 1983, three bombs went off in France, two on a high speed TGV train and another at the Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles.
The TGV train was in service with passengers, bound for Paris.
The explosions happened when the train was travelling south of Lyon.
[1] The train suffered extensive damage with the number 3 passenger car being blown in half and pieces of the trains were found on rooftops of buildings hundreds of meters away.
[2] About 15 minutes later a bomb planted in the luggage room of Marseille's terminus train station detonated.