Italian policeman injured in far-right bookshop blast ~ One Malay News

As the experts approached the package, the blast occurred, said investigators cited by the Italian news agency AGI. The device had been fitted with a timer, they added.

src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u--fgcBS0e0YlR9yiRkB9ul8jyLVT_BDmVnyXyWP2Xx5t3x3TI_LRcKk-06dJss4-ny7LSyr5l=s0-d" srcset="http://ift.tt/2hYomYY 648w, http://ift.tt/2iU73fC 300w, http://ift.tt/2hYy51f 550w, http://ift.tt/2iUbhUA 218w" width="648">ROME: A police explosives expert was seriously injured Sunday when a device placed outside a far-right bookshop in the central Italian city of Florence blew up, police said.

The officer suffered serious injuries to a hand and an eye, city police chief Alberto Initmi told RaiNews24 television.

Police called in an explosives team after a patrol spotted a suspicious package outside the bookshop, which has ties to a far-right group called Casa Pound.

As the experts approached the package, the blast occurred, said investigators cited by the Italian news agency AGI. The device had been fitted with a timer, they added.

Casa Pound first emerged in Rome in 2003. The movement now has several hundred members, who stage protests against the European Union (EU) and immigration.