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Journalists across Ecuador have been targeted by explosive devices sent through the post. One presenter, Lenin Artieda, was injured when he opened the envelope in the middle of the newsroom. He said the explosive device looked like a USB drive. Read More …
Spanish police have arrested a 74-year-old man on suspicion of sending letter bombs to high-profile targets, including the country’s prime minister. The man was reportedly taken into custody in the town of Miranda de Ebro the north of Spain and Read More …
The head of the Russian House in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR) Bangui has been injured, a Russian embassy representative told TASS Friday. “The head of the Russian House received an anonymous parcel Friday and opened it, Read More …
Spain has ordered increased security at government buildings and embassies after the discovery of six letter bombs and incendiary devices over the past seven days, including one that exploded at Ukraine’s embassy in Madrid on Wednesday, lightly injuring an employee. Read More …
An employee at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid has sustained minor injuries after opening what is thought to have been a homemade letter bomb, prompting Kyiv to warn its diplomats to bolster their security precautions. Oleh Nikolenko, a spokesperson for Read More …
Ross Gordon Laverty, who sent mail bombs in 2017 to homes of law enforcement officers in Alameda and East Palo Alto out of revenge, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison Thursday, authorities said. Laverty was convicted in October Read More …
A letter bomb exploded at a Xinwu District post office in Taoyuan at 7:56 a.m. on Wednesday (Nov. 17), setting the docking area ablaze and filling the air with smoke. Postal workers sprang into action, raising the alarm and calling Read More …
A student who sent packages with improvised explosive devices through the post as part of a plot to get fraudulent refunds has been jailed. Ovidijus Margelis, from Cambridge, sent the packages to depots around the UK, causing evacuations, road closures Read More …
Prosecutors in Germany are investigating a possible link between three recent letter bomb attacks on German food retail companies. “We assume there is a connection,” state prosecutors in Heidelberg said on Friday after attacks on a supermarket chain, a drinks Read More …
A total of three people were injured in an explosion in a office building belonging to German discount supermarket chain Lidl in Neckarsulm, a town in southwest Germany, on Wednesday. The explosion was caused by a bomb in either a Read More …
