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Carabinieri paramilitary police officers and firefighters are seen inside the compound of the Swiss Embassy in Rome today. AP Photo/Angelo Carconi
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Explosion at Swiss embassy in Rome
Parcel bomb explodes at embassy, injuring one Swiss person.
A PARCEL BOMB HAS exploded at the Swiss embassy in Rome, Italy.
One person who works at the embassy received serious hand injuries, according to the BBC.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the explosion as a “deplorable” act.
The New York Times reports that the embassy said no one had yet come forward to claim the attack. Italian authorities have launched an investigation, but it is not immediately clear who sent the parcel.
The BBC’s reporter in Rome says there is no indication that the explosion is connected with recent student protests. Earlier this week, a suspicious device was found on an underground train in Rome, but was not found to contain any explosives.
In early November, a number of suspicious packages were sent to some embassies in Europe, to Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin, and to Silvio Berlusconi. Greece temporarily halted its foreign mail service after a number of devices were sent to embassies based in Athens.
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