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| Suspect Package Sent to U.S. Embassy in New Zealand |
| 2014-11-13 |
| [AnNahar] Emergency services rushed to the United States embassy in Wellington on Wednesday after a suspicious package was found in the third such incident in less than 24 hours in New Zealand. "A suspicious package was identified during the normal mail screening process and was referred to the fire service and the police," an embassy front man said. The package was discovered a day after two parcels containing Ebola references were discovered in New Zealand. "The embassy is open and continues to operate normally ... The embassy continues to monitor the situation closely," the front man said in a statement. A police bomb disposal unit was at the scene and fire-fighters wearing chemical suits were outside the building. During screening, X-ray examination revealed a vial in the package which has been sent unopened to a government laboratory for testing, police front man Nick Bohm said. An embassy staff member was also decontaminated as a safety precaution. "It's standard procedure in cases like this. The decontamination unit was at the scene," Bohm told Agence La Belle France Presse. On Tuesday, suspicious packages were delivered to the parliament building in Wellington and to the New Zealand Herald newspaper office in Auckland. The packages contained a plastic bottle and documents that claimed that the liquid in the vial was a sample of the deadly Ebola virus. The liquid has been sent to Australia for testing for the virus which has claimed nearly 5,000 lives mostly in West Africa. Health authorities stressed there was no evidence to suggest New Zealand was dealing with Ebola. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Nicorette. The CiC is in the neighborhood. |
| Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Lumumba9068 2014-11-13 20:29 |
| #4 prolly a holiday fruitcake. Handle as hazmat |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-11-13 18:46 |
| #3 On Tuesday, suspicious packages were delivered to the parliament building in Wellington and to the New Zealand Herald newspaper office in Auckland. "The Herald is traditionally a centre-right newspaper, and was given the nickname "Granny Herald" into the 1990s... today despite remaining free enterprise oriented on economic matters such as trade and foreign investment, the Herald is generally editorially progressive on international geopolitics, diplomacy, and military matters, printing material from British newspapers such as The Independent and The Observer but more recently, conservative newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph. The Herald's stance on the Middle East is supportive of Israel, as seen most clearly in its 2003 censorship and dismissal of cartoonist Malcolm Evans following his submission of cartoons critical of Israel." |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-11-13 12:55 |
| #2 "The embassy is open and continues to operate normally"... i.e. "we're not doing much of anything today, thinking about going to the beach, or maybe dinner and a movie. You guys clean up when you're through". |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-11-13 07:42 |
| #1 Early delivery from Swiss Colony, just as well the decontamination unit was handy. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-11-13 05:25 |