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Explosions Outside Swiss, Russian Embassies In Greece


No one was injured Tuesday in separate explosions outside the Swiss and Russian Embassies in Athens, Greece, police said, a day after a parcel bomb addressed to another embassy exploded and wounded one person.

The object at the Swiss Embassy was a small bomb that was thrown into the building’s courtyard but caused no injuries, police said.

A separate explosion happened outside the Russian Embassy, police said, and also caused no injuries. It wasn’t immediately known what type of device caused that explosion.

Police carried out controlled explosions Tuesday of two other suspicious parcels, both addressed to different embassies, and were looking into a third.

Authorities said they detonated a package at the Bulgarian Embassy and a suspicious package addressed to the Chilean Embassy, after a courier carrying the latter parcel thought it might contain an explosive device.

Police were also looking into a suspicious parcel close to the area where two men were arrested Monday after a parcel bomb, addressed to the Mexican Embassy, exploded at a private courier company, police said.

The explosion at the courier company left one woman wounded. The two suspects were arrested after police cordoned off the surrounding area, the ministry said. Both were wearing wigs and one of them was wearing a bulletproof vest.

Both also were carrying Glock 9mm pistols and were in possession of two other explosive parcels, including one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the ministry and police said. The other was addressed to the Belgian Embassy.

The packages were detonated by police.

The arrested men are in their early 20s and are both Greek nationals, police said. One of them is a suspected member of the Greek leftist militant group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire.

Another parcel bomb was found nearby Monday at another courier company in the same area. It was addressed to the Dutch Embassy.

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(Source: CNN)



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