US embassy in Slovenia suffers bomb scare hoax
LJUBLJANA. May 5. KAZINFORM Slovenia police on Wednesday arrested a 29-year-old man who threw a backpack over the fence of the American embassy situated at Ljubljana city center. Kazinform refers to China Daily.
Police cordoned off the area soon after the incident happened at about 5 am local time. No harmful objects or substances were found when the police destroyed the backpack, the Ljubljana police administration said.
Preliminary investigations showed that the incident was "a case of a tasteless joke," the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) quoted Police Commissioner Janko Gorsek as reporting.
The arrested man, suspected of having mental disease, has been taken out of custody to be provided medical treatment, police said.
The Wednesday incident should "serve as a wake-up call that even in safe Slovenia, bad things could happen," the US embassy said in a press release. Kazinform refers to China Daily. See www.chinadaily.com.cn for full version