Fear Mongering: Suspicious Devices Detonate at Maryland State Offices
Suspicious Devices Detonate at Maryland State Offices
ABC News
By PIERRE THOMAS,JASON RYAN, HUMA KHAN and RICHARD ESPOSITO
A pair of small packages burst into flames inside two government office buildings in Maryland today, causing minor injuries, evacuations and a federal probe into who might have sent what appears to have been incendiary bombs similar to devices recently mailed to embassies in Rome and in Greece.
The explosives were described as incendiary devices that looked like a small padded envelope or a book. One exploded at the Department of Transportation headquarters, located near the Baltimore airport. The other erupted at the Jeffrey Building in downtown Annapolis, which is home to several departments, including the Maryland Secretary of State and the the Maryland Office of Homeland Security.
Five people were being treated for minor injuries and there were no fatalities, Ed McDonough, a spokesperson for the Maryland Emergency Management Agency, told ABC News.
All the mailrooms at other Maryland state buildings are on lockdown. They are not accepting any deliveries and the packages that are already inside the buildings are being checked, he said.
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