Diplomatic and Military Affairs
US embassy in Slovenia suffers bomb scare hoax
Updated: 2011-05-05 10:01
(Xinhua)
LJUBLJANA - Slovenia police on Wednesday arrested a 29-year-old man who threw a backpack over the fence of the American embassy situated at Ljubljana city center.
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Preliminary investigations showed that the incident was "a case of a tasteless joke," the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) quoted Police Commissioner Janko Gorsek as reporting.
The arrested man, suspected of having mental disease, has been taken out of custody to be provided medical treatment, police said.
The US embassy here has been on high vigilance after al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in the US, was killed by US troops in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad on Sunday.
The Wednesday incident should "serve as a wake-up call that even in safe Slovenia, bad things could happen," the US embassy said in a press release.
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