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U.S. Embassy in Stockholm evacuated

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
A letters with unknown contents arrived the U.S. Embassy in Gärdet in Stockholm forcing the embassy to be evacuated at Swedish lunchtime. Thus, the police has launched an investigation into the suspicious shipment.

The Swedish police told Swedish media that the evacuation is due to "a letter with unknown contents that have come to the embassy. There is a possible security incident, which we are investigating."

At the same time, the embassy is being evacuated, spokes person for the US embassy, Jeff Anderson, said. Anderson would not want to go into what the "incident" is  but it would have happened in the last hour.

Some 150 people work in the embassy but Anderson does not know how many people were in the building at the time.
by Scancomark.com Team





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