New Chile bombing wounds one
9/10/2014 6:05:09 PM
A homemade bomb exploded Tuesday night outside a supermarket in the Chilean resort city of Vina del Mar, wounding one person a day after a subway station bombing injured 14.
The bomb, made from a plastic bottle filled with aluminum and hydrochloric acid, was placed inside a trash can, like the homemade device that ripped through a food court at a packed subway station in Santiago on Monday, police said.
It went off when a janitor tried to empty the trash can, leaving the 43-year-old woman with trauma to the ears.
She was treated at a health center and released.
Police are investigating the bombing, which, like Monday's attack in the capital, has not been claimed.
The South American country has seen a string of unsolved small bombings recently.
Monday's blast at the Escuela Militar (Military School) station, which the government condemned as a "terrorist act," was the second on the Santiago subway system in less than two months.
The bomb, made from a plastic bottle filled with aluminum and hydrochloric acid, was placed inside a trash can, like the homemade device that ripped through a food court at a packed subway station in Santiago on Monday, police said.
It went off when a janitor tried to empty the trash can, leaving the 43-year-old woman with trauma to the ears.
She was treated at a health center and released.
Police are investigating the bombing, which, like Monday's attack in the capital, has not been claimed.
The South American country has seen a string of unsolved small bombings recently.
Monday's blast at the Escuela Militar (Military School) station, which the government condemned as a "terrorist act," was the second on the Santiago subway system in less than two months.