According to the authorities, the letters containing explosives have been rendered harmless. Yesterday, Wednesday, one person was injured in the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid when a letter bomb exploded.
In Spain, the authorities say that a letter bomb has been sent to two ministers.
According to the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, the Prime Minister For Pedro Sánchez a letter containing explosives was sent last week. The letter arrived with the mail and contained “pyrotechnic material”, the Ministry of the Interior says.
The incident took place in the prime minister’s office on November 24. The Prime Minister’s security personnel discovered the letter and rendered it harmless.
The Spanish Ministry of Defense, on the other hand, says that a letter bomb was delivered to the ministry on Thursday morning, which was also neutralized. The shipment was addressed to the Minister of Defense For Margarita Robles.
A total of five letter bombs have now been detected. A letter bomb has also been delivered to an air force base near Madrid, as well as to the Spanish arms manufacturer Instalaza in the city of Zaragoza. One of the letter bombs exploded yesterday, Wednesday, in the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid. The employee handling the shipment was slightly injured.
Spanish media (switch to another service) tell (you switch to another service), that according to legal sources, all detected letter transmissions are identical to each other. The matter is being investigated as a crime of terrorism.
According to Spanish media, the Ministry of the Interior had ordered the police to tighten security measures in public buildings after the bomb arrived at the Prime Minister.
At this stage, it is not possible to make an estimate of a possible factor, said Spain’s Deputy Minister of the Interior on Thursday, according to the Reuters news agency.
Ambassador of Ukraine to Spain Serhii Pohoreltsev appeared on Wednesday to blame the bomb that arrived at the Ukrainian embassy on Russia. Ukraine announced that it would tighten security at all its foreign embassies after the explosion.
Sources: Reuters, AFP