2 Injured In Bomb Blasts At Swiss, Chilean Embassies In Rome -- L.A. Times
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police suspect anarchist movements.
Reporting from London — Two parcel bombs exploded inside the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome on Thursday, injuring an employee at each diplomatic post.
All other embassies in the Italian capital were on alert. Suspicious packages were examined at the nearby Ukrainian, Slovenian and Estonian embassies but all were false alarms.
Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the episode was "a deplorable act of violence," and ordered a warning to be put out to all the embassies as well as Italian missions abroad.
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