‘Bomber’ caught at US embassy
Police arrested a Bosnian man yesterday after he tried to enter the US Embassy in Vienna with a backpack containing explosives, nails and Islamic literature, authorities said.
The suspect was taken into police custody after he was seen dropping the bag and fleeing on foot, Vienna police spokeswoman Michaela Raz said.
No one was injured, but police sealed off the neighborhood as a precaution and shut down or rerouted nearby bus and tramway lines. Officers patrolled the area with bomb-sniffing dogs.
The suspect was described only as a 42-year-old native of Bosnia-Herzegovina who now lives in the province of Lower Austria, which encircles most of the capital. Police said they made the arrest a short distance from the embassy building in a neighborhood where security is tight.
Raz said explosives experts were still examining the contents of the backpack.
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