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Blast causes scare at Swedish postal sorting terminal
Feb 2, 2011, 14:17 GMT
Stockholm - A mystery blast Wednesday at a Swedish postal terminal was proved to have been caused by a fire extinguisher, police said.
No employees were injured in the blast at the terminal in Borlange, 210 kilometres north-west of the capital, Stockholm. But authorities decided to give antibiotics to some two dozen workers who were in the part of the building where the blast took place.
The workers were also decontaminated as a precautionary measure aimed at reducing the risk in the event that the powder was laced with anthrax.
Explosives experts were dispatched from Stockholm to investigate the package that contained the fire extinguisher.
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