A suspicious package has arrived in the New York offices of the US broadcaster CNN. CNN announced on Wednesday. The rooms are located in the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. The whole building had been cleared. There is a suspicion that the broadcast contained an explosive device, reported the US broadcaster. It is therefore apparently a pipe bomb.
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During a broadcast on Wednesday morning (local time), a security alarm was heard in the CNN studio.
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The New York police called on Twitter to avoid the area around the building. Further details were not initially known.
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In a statement, CNN writes that the possible explosive device was a construction made of a tube and cables. The New York police reported that. He is classified as an actual bomb. This was also received in the post office.
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Shortly before, it became known that a suspicious package had been found at the residence of former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, which apparently contained an explosive device. According to media reports, the Secret Service discovered yet another, possibly explosive package addressed to ex-US President Barack Obama.
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The two packages were intercepted by Secret Service officials on Tuesday and Wednesday before they reached their addressees, the agency said.
The White House condemned the “attempted attacks” on Obama, Clinton and other public figures as hideous. The perpetrators would be called to account with all the severity of the law.
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An explosive device had already been found in the mailbox of billionaire George Soros in New York State on Monday. Soros supported Hillary Clinton, who was defeated by Donald Trump, in the 2016 presidential election campaign.
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