VIENNA -- Police neutralized a letter bomb Saturday sent to the Austrian president of the charity organization Caritas, only a day after two other letter bombs injured a female journalist and a priest, the Austrian news agency APA reported.
A security official at the Caritas headquarters immediately alarmed police after discovering a suspicious-looking letter addressed to Austrian Caritas President Helmut Schueller.
Police officials have not ruled out the possibility of connections between the three letter bombs, as they were all were posted from the province of Lower Austria.
On Friday, Croatian-born journalist Silvana Meixner and priest August Janisch suffered serious injuries to their hands, head and chest when bombs in letters addressed to them, exploded in their hands.
Meixner, 35, is editor of the weekly Austrian television ORF broadcast 'Heimat, fremde Heimat' (Home, strange home), which deals with ethnic minority and integration issues.
The 51 year-old priest from Hartberg, 66 miles (110 kms) south of Vienna, is locally well-known for his efforts to aid refugees, especially those from the former Yugoslavia.
Both Meixner and Janisch said they had been receiving threat warnings from unidentified extremist groups.
The Austrian Caritas organization, together with ORF and the Red Cross, are involved in the Neighbor in Need project, the largest private aid campaign in the former Yugoslavia.
