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 News from Around the Americas | October 2007 
Devices Explode at Mexican Consulate in New York
 Reuters
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| | Emergency personnel stand near evidence markers in front of the Mexican Consulate in New York, October 26, 2007. Police were investigating the explosion of two makeshift explosive devices outside the Mexican Consulate in New York on Friday, police said. (Reuters/Jeff Zelevansky) |
New York - Police were investigating the explosion of two makeshift explosive devices outside the Mexican Consulate in New York on Friday, police said.
Police had cordoned off the area outside the building on the East Side of midtown Manhattan and the bomb squad was scouring the scene for evidence.
Police said there were no injuries.
Police sources told Reuters two explosive devices were thrown at the wall of the consulate in the middle of the night, exploding and breaking windows in the building.
Consulate workers found broken glass and fragments of one of the devices when they arrived at work on Friday.
A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman in Mexico City said it was unclear exactly what the devices were.
"They threw something in from outside breaking two windows. They had to evacuate the consulate staff," she said.
A New York Police Department spokesman said the devices were similar to makeshift grenades that exploded outside the British Consulate in New York in 2005.
In May 2005, two home-made grenades exploded outside an office building whose tenants include the British Consulate and an executive linked to a company that has attracted protests for selling Israel bulldozers used to raze Palestinian homes.
Initial reports of that incident drew a connection between the blast and the British Consulate.
But police later said they were investigating another possible target - a board member of Caterpillar Inc. - who works in the building. The company sells bulldozers used by Israel to raze Palestinian homes.
No arrests have been made in the 2005 case.
NY Cops Investigate Explosive at Mexico Consulate
Reuters
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Police were investigating a possible explosive device at the Mexican Consulate in New York on Friday, police at the scene said.
Police had cordoned off the area outside the building on the East Side of midtown Manhattan and the bomb squad was scouring the scene for evidence.
Local TV station WABC reported on its Web site that two explosive devices were thrown at the consulate in the middle of the night and that one may have exploded, adding that consulate workers found broken glass and fragments of one of the devices when they arrived at work on Friday morning.
The Web site said there were no injuries and that the devices were similar to makeshift device that exploded outside the British Consulate in New York in 2005. |
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