THE NETHERLANDS: A man set ablaze the Turkish embassy in the Netherlands yesterday, slightly injuring five people, but prosecutors said it was not a terrorist attack.
Police arrested a 16-year-old youth from Haarlem after the incident, in which the suspect and an embassy visitor who jumped out of a window were among the injured, a prosecutor said. The fire had been extinguished, officials said. Officials had said an explosion had rocked the embassy in The Hague, but the prosecutor told a news conference that the suspect, whose nationality was not disclosed, had tossed a bag containing "flammable material" into the building.
"There is no indication of a political motive and no indication it was a terrorist attack," he said.
Turkey's ambassador to the Netherlands, Mr Tacan Ildem, said earlier that a man had left a package after entering the building to ask for information.
The subsequent fire damaged a door, and the man ran away, Mr Ildem told Turkish television.
He said the man spoke Dutch and was not a Turkish national.
The prosecutor said that no second device had been found, contradicting comments from a Turkish official that another package had been discovered in the same area.
The suspect was arrested by railway police at the Hague central train station and was in custody. He had visited the embassy and had been involved in a dispute with staff and returned with the bag. The prosecutor said he assumed the bag had been on fire when the youth threw it in.