Man arrested over letter bombs

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s inside ministry mentioned Wednesday police had arrested a person on suspicion of sending six letters containing explosive materials to Spain’s prime minister and to the U.S. and Ukrainian embassies within the nation.

The Spanish nationwide was arrested within the northern metropolis of Miranda de Ebro and a search of his house is “nonetheless underway,” the ministry added in an announcement.

An worker on the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid was barely injured whereas dealing with a letter in November. A bomb squad additionally destroyed an explosive system that was dispatched by common submit to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in the identical month.

Letters with comparable traits have been despatched to Spain’s Protection Ministry, a European Union satellite tv for pc middle situated on the Torrejón de Ardoz air base outdoors Madrid and to an arms manufacturing unit in northeastern Spain that makes grenades despatched to Ukraine.

An envelope intercepted on the American Embassy’s safety screening level in December was detonated by authorities after a large space was cordoned off by Spanish police across the embassy within the middle of Spain’s capital.