Alert: Italy – Small Bomb Explodes Outside of a Rome Post Office (May 12, 2017)

May 12, 2017

A small bomb exploded outside of a post office in Rome, Italy, on Friday.

According to the Associated Press and UK’s Guardian:

A rudimentary explosive device has exploded between parked vehicles outside a post office in Rome, causing no injuries but damaging a car.

A preliminary investigation indicated that the blast was likely to have been “a demonstrative act, showing that it could be done” rather than being devised to cause major damage, Rome police official Massimo Improta told reporters on Friday.

Similar explosions in Rome and other Italian cities in recent years have frequently been blamed on or claimed by anarchists. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest blast.

The post office serves the residential Testaccio neighborhood and is near the foot of the Aventine hill, the southernmost of Rome’s seven hills.

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