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Date Published: 30/11/2022

ARCHIVED - Ukraine Embassy worker in Madrid injured by letter bomb explosion

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The explosive was hidden in an envelope addressed to the Ambassador that didn’t go through the scanner

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Ukraine Embassy worker in Madrid injured by letter bomb explosion

There was an explosion at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid this Wednesday November 30 at noon in which at least one person, an embassy employee, was injured after opening an envelope containing a small homemade explosive, according to police sources.

The employee, a Ukrainian citizen working as a security guard in the Embassy, made their own way on foot to the Hospital Nuestra Señora de América in Madrid after the incident. They have already been discharged. The envelope containing the bomb was reportedly addressed to the Ukrainian Ambassador to Spain but was not passed through the scanner and was instead opened by the security guard in the garden of the Embassy, which is located in the Madrid neighbourhood of Piovera in the Hortaleza district.

It was the Embassy itself that alerted the police of the incident at about 1.15pm, and they sent a bomb squad with dogs to analyse the envelope and search for more possible explosives, having activated the anti-terrorist protocol and cordoned off the area.

The National Police is investigating the incident, with the participation of the Scientific Police and the Provincial Information Brigade.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmitro Kuleba, has called for increased security at the country’s Embassies around the world after the explosion in Spain.

Image: Wikimedia commons

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