Barbara Surk, New York Times, Feb. 22; see also (1) (2)
Image from article, with caption: The police guarded the entrance to the United States Embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro, early Thursday.
Excerpt:
A man threw an explosive device onto the grounds of the United States Embassy in Montenegro late Wednesday, but succeeded in killing only himself, Montenegrin and American officials said.
Around midnight local time, witnesses saw the man, who was not identified, throw an object over the wall of the embassy property in Podgorica, the capital, according to the government of Montenegro and to Steve Goldstein, the State Department’s under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs. The blast killed the man but did not injure anyone in the embassy, which was closed for the night. ...
Mr. Goldstein said that diplomatic security officials had swept the grounds and had found no other explosives. He added that the State Department did not know the motive of the assault or whether it was meant to be a suicide attack. ...
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