AMSTERDAM: Two letter bombs exploded in the Netherlands this morning, one at an ABN Amro bank mail-sorting office in Amsterdam and the other 140 miles away at a mail room of Japanese electronics group Ricoh , police said. Police said there were no injuries and they were investigating whether the blasts were linked to a string of letter bombs intercepted in the country since early January. An employee in the Amsterdam sorting office heard a hissing sound as they were about to open a letter, the city’s police said. The second explosion in the southern town of Kerkrade, on the border with Germany, was at the offices of Ricoh, a Japanese electronics company. Dutch police have been investigating a spate of letter bombs since Jan 3, which they said appeared to have been sent by the same person.

Source: New Strait Times February 12, 2020 12:45 UTC