Italian bomb-squad expert wounded while examining package
Police in Florence say a bomb-squad officer was wounded when a suspicious package he was examining exploded.
The Italian news agency ANSA said police noticed the package, which apparently had a timer and wires, at 5am Sunday outside a closed bookshop with links to a neo-fascist activist group, CasaPound. Police chief Alberto Intini said the officer suffered very serious eye and hand injuries.
Italy occasionally sees explosions blamed on right-wing or left-wing extremists. In the 1970s and early '80s it suffered bombings, slayings and kidnappings during domestic terrorism.
