Reports: Explosive Device Was Found in Rome Subway

NYT:

ROME (AP) — An explosive device was found Tuesday in a subway car in Rome, Italian news agencies reported.

The ANSA and Apcom news agency said the device was found Tuesday inside a train during a stop in Rebibbia, on the outskirts of Rome.

ANSA cited a press release by the Atac company that runs the subway. Nobody was immediately available at Atac.

Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno said it was "worrying."

"Bomb disposal experts are looking into what it is — whether it's a dangerous device that was capable of exploding or an inactive object," Alemanno was quoted as saying by Apcom.

The area was cleared of people, according to the reports.

Apcom said the device had been left in a grocery bag underneath a seat, and was spotted by the conductor in the morning.

A Christmas attack on Rome, the center of Christianity for the Western World.

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MORE: Washington DC:

Metro Police started randomly inspecting bags at the Braddock Road and College Park Metro stations Tuesday.

The searches, which are designed to be non-intrusive, came in the wake of recent terror plots and the same morning that an explosive device was found under a subway car seat in Rome.

The searches started at 7:30 a.m. and lasted about an hour at the Braddock Metro station.

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