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 Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:10 pm Post subject: Bomb Found On Underground Train In Rome |
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| Quote: | Bomb Found On Underground Train In Rome
An explosive device has been found on an underground train in Rome, Italian news agencies report.
It is thought the parcel bomb was found inside an empty carriage during a stop in Rebibbia, on the outskirts of the city.
The area has been cleared and bomb disposal experts are apparently examining the device.
Reports have said it was left in a grocery bag underneath a seat, and was spotted by the conductor this morning.
Rome's Mayor Gianni Alemanno said the discovery was "worrying". |
| Quote: | Bomb found in Rome underground-transport authority
ROME | Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:53pm GMT
ROME (Reuters) - An explosive device was found on Tuesday in an underground train station in Rome, the city's transport authority said.
Transport authority ATAC said in a statement that the device was found in the Rebibbia metro station by one of its employees.
(Reporting by Rome Newsroom; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Quote: | Bomb found in Rome underground carriage: officials
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ROME (Reuters) – An explosive device was found on Tuesday in an empty underground train carriage in Rome, the city's transport authority ATAC said.
The device was found by a train driver in a marshalling yard near the Rebibbia metro station at about 0900 GMT, ATAC said.
An ATAC official said the device could have exploded.
The train, which was being prepared for service, was empty apart from the driver, ATAC said.
It was not known if the device had since been defused.
Tensions are running high in Rome after student protests last week against government austerity cuts escalated into some of the worst violence in the capital for years.
Another demonstration is planned for Wednesday.
(Reporting by Rome Newsroom, editing by Tim Pearce) |
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| Quote: | Parcel bomb found on Rome metro train: official
Agence France-Presse
Rome, December 21, 2010
First Published: 20:02 IST(21/12/2010)
Last Updated: 20:03 IST(21/12/2010)
A parcel bomb primed to explode was on Tuesday found by transport workers in an empty train carriage in Rome's metro system and defused, a spokesman for the city council told AFP. "It was ready to explode," said Giampaolo Polizzaro. "It seems it could have been activated by remote control because it had something that looked like an antenna," Polizzaro said. |
| Quote: | Suspected Rome bomb lacked detonator: Police
Reuters
Rome, December 21, 2010
First Published: 21:02 IST(21/12/2010)
Last Updated: 21:04 IST(21/12/2010)
A suspected bomb was found in an empty underground train carriage in Rome on Tuesday, but police said it lacked a detonator and could not have exploded. The device, described by one police source as rudimentary, was found by a driver preparing a train for service in a marshalling yard near the Rebibbia metro station at about 0900 GMT, transport authority ATAC said.
It was in a box with cables, batteries and antennas, an ATAC spokesman said.
"It didn't have a detonator, it couldn't explode," a spokesman for the Carabinieri, Italy's paramilitary police force, told Reuters by telephone.
He said it contained a small quantity of explosive powder.
The device was discovered at a time of increased tension in Italy following anti-government protests last week that descended into some of the worst violence in Rome for years.
A senior Iraqi official said last week that al Qaeda was planning attacks in the United States, Britain and Europe around Christmas.
A suspected suicide bomber was killed in a botched attack in Stockholm on Dec 11. Police believe he was planning to attack a train station or department store at the height of the Christmas shopping season. |
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| Quote: | | The explosions follow the discovery of a rudimentary device in an empty underground train in Rome on Tuesday. However, police said that it lacked a detonator and tests showed it contained no explosive. |
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