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Posted on: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:16 AM
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Subject: Police probe blast near British embassy in Bahrain
An explosion occurred early Sunday near the British embassy in the Bahraini capital, an embassy spokesman said. |
Police probe blast near British embassy in Bahrain
- "Official Iranian incitement has reactions," Bahrain says
- The bomb was below a minibus tire about 50 meters from the embassy's main building
- It is unclear whether the embassy was targeted
- The incident comes days after the storming of Britain's embassy in Iran
(CNN) -- A bomb exploded overnight near the British Embassy in Bahrain, prompting added security at all embassies in the capital, Bahraini officials said Sunday.
The explosive device was planted below a tire of a minibus parked near the fence of the embassy, about 50 meters (164 feet) from the main building, the Bahraini Interior Ministry said.
The blast occurred after midnight.
There were no injuries and the embassy was not damaged, embassy spokesman Altaher Mohammad Aljamal said.
Bahraini police and the Interior Ministry responded to the scene, Aljamal said.
It was unclear whether the embassy was targeted, he said, pending a police investigation.
The British Foreign Office said it was "aware of a small blast in a vehicle near the British embassy last night. Police and fire service attended the scene."
"We are liaising with the Ministry of Interior and we are not going to speculate on the cause of the blast," it said in a statement.
On its official Twitter feed, Bahrain's Interior Ministry said it was calling on "the public to immediately report any suspicious car stationed near vital establishments in the kingdom."
The explosive device "was highly volatile," the ministry said, but investigators had not yet determined its size.
The blast blew off a wheel of the minibus and damaged the front of the vehicle, the ministry said.
The incident comes days after protesters in Iran stormed British Embassy in Tehran. Britain closed the embassy and evacuated all its staff from the country.
When asked whether the incident in Bahrain was connected to last week's developments in Iran, the Interior Ministry spokesman said investigators were considering all possibilities.
"Official Iranian incitement has reactions as well as dangerous training in Syria," the spokesman said on Twitter.
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