ROME, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Two people were injured in parcel bombs explosions at the Chilean and Swiss embassies in Rome, officials said.
A staff member at the Swiss embassy suffered serious hand injuries and one person was slightly injured when a parcel exploded at the Chilean embassy, the BBC reported. Both incidents occurred Thursday.
Italian police were searching all the embassies and consular offices for additional bombs, but there was no indication of who planted the explosive devices, officials said.
The Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera said police investigations were "targeting anarchistic circles of eco-terrorist extraction."
"Detectives are assessing various hypotheses, including that of an attack planned by anarchist-insurrectionist movements connected with the jailing of several anarchist exponents currently held in Swiss prisons," the newspaper said on its Web site.
A suspicious package was found on an empty underground train in Rome Tuesday, but it lacked a detonator, and further tests found it lacking any explosive material.
Anti-government protests in Italy have been widespread in the past week and some of the most serious mayhem occurred in Rome, the report said.
