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Kenya: Finnish embassy gets terror threats-envoy

Published on: 2008-02-06 05:19:49

(SomaliNet) Finnish Ambassador Heli Sirve, said Wednesday that the Finnish embassy in Kenya has received terror threats.

Sirve said the three threats, received on Saturday by email, said that several Western embassies were targets of an attack that would come from Ethiopia.

Only the Finnish Embassy was named in the messages.

\"We checked with the Americans, British, Scandinavians and several others, but no one else seems to have received similar threats,\" she said.

The emails, sent to the embassy\'s email inbox, did not say when a possible attack would happen. The messages used Somali senders\' names, Sirve said.

Police were investigating the threats, and the embassy has increased security. Terrorist threats targeting Finnish interests are rare, Sirve said.

The Finnish Embassy in Nairobi, situated in an office block, has a staff of 25 people. - Sapa-AP

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