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Police defuse letter bomb at US embassy

Police have defused a letter bomb found near the main entrance to the heavily-guarded US Embassy in Santiago, Chile.

Fri, 28 Sep, 2001 - 08:00

Police have defused a letter bomb found near the main entrance to the heavily-guarded US Embassy in Santiago, Chile.

Police said embassy security personnel alerted them to the suspicious envelope.

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