Three held over IBM bomb plot

Three people have been held on suspicion of trying to blow up a high-tech Swiss research plant owned by computer giant IBM, it emerged today.

Italians Costantino Ragusa and Silvia Guerini along with Swiss national Luca Bernasconi on April 15 near Rueschlikon where the company is building a nanotechnology lab.

Swiss prosecutors said three people were arrested with “explosive and further items in their car” as well as a note “indicating a planned attack on the branch of an international company.”

IBM Switzerland said the company “has been notified by Swiss police authorities about an investigation and is co-operating accordingly.”