Letter Bombs

• 

  Preliminary CBI Probe In Ex-Mumbai Top Cop's Plea Against Minister: Court

  The Bombay High Court today ordered the CBI to carry out a preliminary probe within 15 days into former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh's allegations against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.

• 

  International Monetary Fund Letter Bomb: What Is The Conspiracy Of Fire Nuclei?

  Investigators suspect a Greek far-left group -- known as the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei -- was behind a letter bomb that wounded an IMF secretary in Paris on Thursday, the same day the group claimed responsibility for an explosive device found in Berlin.

• 

  French School Shooting: 8 Injured Including Head Teacher

  Eight people were injured after a student opened fire at a high school in the southern French town of Grasse, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said on Thursday.

• 

  1 Hurt In Letter Bomb Blast At International Monetary Fund Paris Office

  A letter bomb exploded at the Paris offices of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday, injuring a secretary who suffered burns to her hands and face, police said. Employees were evacuated from the building near the Arc de Triomphe monument in the heart of the capital "as a precaution" after the late morning explosion, a police source said. IMF...

• Letter bomb ignites in Greek post sorting centre

  A letter bomb believed to have been sent by radical anarchists ignited in a Greek post sorting centre on Wednesday without causing any injuries, police said.

• Army Chief speaks at industry event, does not comment on letter bomb

  Army Chief General VK Singh kept an appointment with captains of industry today, but refused to comment on the twin storms he has generated this week that have engulfed the country.

• Letter bomb explodes at Italy tax office

  A letter bomb exploded on Friday at an office of Italy's tax collection agency, wounding the organization's director. Police were probing possible links to an Italian anarchist group that claimed credit for a thwarted attack against the chief executive of Deutsche Bank this week and warned there would be two more "explosions."

• Letter bomb explodes in Puducherry

  A 27-year-old woman was seriously injured when a bomb exploded in her house near here today, police said.They said the woman, who is the daughter of a retired employee of a textile mill here, had reportedly received a phone call earlier and received the parcel in which the bomb was allegedly packed.On opening it, the bomb exploded, police said.Poli...

• Greek police destroy letter bomb in Athens

  Greek police destroyed a letter bomb sent to the Justice Ministry on Wednesday and warned other government offices to watch out for more potentially booby-trapped packages, fearing a repetition of a spate of such bombings in November.No injuries were caused by Wednesday's controlled detonation outside the ministry building near central Athens.The b...

• Suspicious package found at German Chancellor Merkel's office

  Police were investigating a suspicious package at German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office on Tuesday, hours after small mail bombs exploded outside the Russian and Swiss embassies in Athens in attacks blamed on far-left domestic extremists.Greek police destroyed at least three more suspected bombs in Athens.No group claimed responsibility for Tues...

• Plot to send letter bomb to French President busted, 2 arrested in Athens

  Police in Greece say two terrorism suspects have been arrested carrying letter bombs addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and western embassies in Athens.The two Greek men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested in central Athens after a parcel bomb addressed to the Mexican embassy in Athens exploded at a mail delivery service, leaving one employee...