GENEVA — A letter bomb exploded Thursday at an office of the Swiss nuclear power industry in the northern city of Olten, wounding two people, police said.
The incident happened hours before another package exploded at a military barracks in Italy, wounding one person, and authorities in Greece defused a mail bomb sent to a maximum-security prison where alleged members of an armed anarchist group are on trial.
Authorities haven’t drawn a link between the incidents, but Italian news reports citing unidentified sources said Italian investigators believed they were connected. The Italian bombing was claimed by anarchists. In December, Italian anarchists sent letter bombs to the embassies of Greece, Chile and Switzerland in Rome as part of a campaign with jailed comrades in Greece.
The explosion in Switzerland occurred as staffers were opening the morning’s mail in the office of Swissnuclear, a lobby group representing several Swiss power companies.
Solothurn cantonal police spokeswoman Thalia Schweizer said two female staff members had been taken to a hospital with superficial injuries.
Opponents of nuclear power in Switzerland have become more vocal in recent weeks as images of the stricken Fukushima reactor in Japan appear on the evening news bulletins daily.
