Suspicious packages were sent to more than a dozen foreign embassies and consulates in major Australian cities on Wednesday in a seemingly orchestrated but scattershot campaign. Emergency services raced to a string of diplomatic facilities which had received packages containing suspected hazardous material, all within the space of a few hours. There was no obvious pattern to countries targeted, with consulates of the United States, China, Italy, India, Japan and New Zealand suffering scares. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs said it had sent a note to all diplomatic missions in the capital on Tuesday, “alerting them to the possibility of suspicious packages being delivered by mail”. Local media on Monday reported that the Argentine consulate in Sydney had received a package containing white powder.

Source: Egypt Independent January 09, 2019 09:22 UTC