'Suspicious packages' found at foreign missions in Australia
- jamessnow321
- Jan 10, 2019
- 1 min read
Australian police are investigating suspicious packages found at foreign consulates and embassies in Melbourne and Canberra.
Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade said it had been called to "a number of incidents" across the city.
Consulates of the UK, Switzerland, the US and Pakistan are among those evacuated there.
Some of the packages were reported to contain what appeared to be concrete, and were labelled asbestos.
There were no reports of harm to any staff.
The Swiss consulate in Melbourne was sent a small envelope containing a substance labelled "asbestos", said Peter Erb, the husband of honorary consul Manuela Erb.
"We immediately put the envelope in another bag and rang the emergency service and they came and took it away," he told the BBC.
"We do know now that the item was not likely a bio-hazard."
On Monday, suspicious parcels containing a white substance were sent to Argentina's consulate in Sydney. They were later found to be non-toxic.
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