Firefighters seen outside the Indian and French consulates in Melbourne on Wednesday. APSeveral foreign consulates were evacuated in the Australian cities of Melbourne and Canberra on Wednesday after they received suspicious packages. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported suspicious packages were also found at the Melbourne consulates of the United States, Switzerland, Pakistan and New Zealand, and possibly those of Greece, France, and Hong Kong. The ABC reported one New Zealand consulate worker had said the packages in question were envelopes labelled "asbestos." The incidents come after Sydney's Argentinian consulate was partially evacuated on Monday after reports of a suspicious substance.

Source: The Telegraph January 09, 2019 05:15 UTC