Athens, Nov 2 (DPA) A bomb exploded outside the Swiss Embassy in Athens Tuesday, embassy officials said, and Greek police later detonated a suspicious package in a mail delivery van outside Parliament.
There were no immediate reports of any injuries. Bomb experts subsequently detonated a parcel bomb found at the Chilean Embassy and a suspect package at the Bulgarian Embassy.
Swiss Embassy officials said the small bomb exploded after an individual on a motorbike threw a package into the embassy’s garden.
Tuesday’s explosions came one day after police arrested two suspects carrying a parcel bomb addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and the Belgium and Dutch embassies in the city.
A parcel bomb which was addressed to the Mexican Embassy left a female worker at a courier company with injuries to her hands after the package exploded Tuesday.
Reports said police believe there is no connection with Al Qaeda and that the two men arrested were suspected to be linked to the Greek far-left militant group known as Fire Conspiracy Cells.
Greece has been plagued by a wave of bomb and gas cannister attacks by far-left and militant groups since the police killing of a teenager in Athens in December 2008 which sparked the worst riots the country has seen in decades.
Earlier this year, a senior official at the country’s public order ministry was killed in a letter-bomb blast which was addressed to the minister.
