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ROME (Reuters) – Italian police said on Thursday they were checking all embassies in Rome after two people were injured in separate explosions at the Swiss and Chilean missions in what Rome's mayor called a "wave of terrorism."

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the incidents bore similarities to an episode in Greece last month in which far-left militants were suspected of sending parcel bombs to foreign governments and embassies in Athens.

"It's a wave of terrorism against the embassies," Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno told reporters.
The Italian news agency ANSA said a suspect package had been found at the Ukrainian mission but the embassy later said no dangerous items had been found after a search of the package.
"We're working with bomb disposal experts to ensure that no packages can be opened by inexperienced people," Rome's chief of police Francesco Tagliente told Reuters.

"We still need to understand the nature of these episodes, all the embassies have been alerted."
Police said the injured Swiss embassy employee had been taken to hospital in central Rome suffering serious wounds to his hands after he opened a package in the mailroom.
Bomb disposal experts searched the Swiss embassy offices, located in a prosperous part of Rome which houses many foreign embassies, but staff remained in the building following the incident, which occurred at around midday (1100 GMT).

"The ambassador is still on site, the embassy has not been evacuated," Maurizio Mezzavilla, a spokesman for the Carabinieri, Italy's paramilitary police told reporters.
Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Lars Knuchel said that so far no one had claimed responsibility for the act.
"The man is an employee of the embassy, he was injured while he was opening a package received in the mailroom which blew up in his hands," Mezzavilla told reporters.