Italy News:

Three Mail Bombs Explode in Europe, Injuring Three
By GAIA PIANIGIANI
Published: March 31, 2011
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ROME — A letter bomb seriously wounded a senior Italian Army official in Livorno on Thursday, the army said in a statement.

An Italian anarchist group, the Informal Anarchist Federation, took responsibility for the attack, the army said.

The same group was responsible for sending three letter bombs to embassies in Rome in December that wounded two people seriously.
According to the Italian news media, the episode may also have been linked to two other bombs delivered in Europe on Thursday.

A letter bomb was defused at a Greek prison and another exploded at an office of the Swiss nuclear power industry in the northern city of Olten, injuring two people. The Greek police said the letter bomb sent to the prison in western Athens bore postage stamps from Florence.

It was not immediately clear who had sent the letter bombs in Greece and Switzerland.

In Italy, the bomb exploded as the official, Lt. Col. Alessandro Albamonte of the Parachutist Brigade, was opening a padded envelope in his office at a military base in Livorno, the Italian police said.

Colonel Albamonte, who had been stationed in Afghanistan in the past, had severe injuries to both hands and eyes, said the press office of Florence-based Careggi hospital where he was brought after receiving first aid in Livorno, Tuscany.

(source:the newyork times)

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