New bomb alerts at Rome embassies

A Carabinieri official said the device found at the Greek embassy bore similarities to one discovered in the Rome metro last week.

The metro device was found in a box with cables, batteries and antennas but had no detonator.

Suspect packages found at the Venezuelan, Danish and Monaco embassies turned out to be false alarms.

There were other alerts last week at the Irish and Ukrainian embassies in Rome as authorities stepped up checks on mail deliveries.

Last week, an Italian anarchist group called the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) claimed responsibility in a note for parcel bombs that wounded two people at the Swiss and Chilean embassies.

The incidents bore similarities to an episode in Greece last month in which far-left militants sent parcel bombs to foreign governments and embassies in Athens.

Moreover, the note was signed by the