{"id":307900,"date":"2019-01-09T10:13:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T10:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307900"},"modified":"2019-01-09T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T10:20:06","slug":"australia-suspicious-packages-sent-to-diplomatic-missions-including-indian-consulate-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/australia-suspicious-packages-sent-to-diplomatic-missions-including-indian-consulate-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: Suspicious Packages sent to Diplomatic Missions including Indian Consulate in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307901 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aus-police-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/aus-police-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/aus-police.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A major emergency response was launched by the Australian authorities on Wednesday after suspicious packages were found at several diplomatic missions, including the Indian Consulate in Melbourne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The packages are being examined by attending emergency services,&#8221; the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Packages were delivered to at least 10 international consulates across Melbourne. Firefighters and Victoria paramedics were attending the Indian Consulate and US Consulate on St Kilda Road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the missions affected included the United Kingdom, New Zealand, India, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Germany, Greece, Spain, Seychelles, Switzerland, Croatia and Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Officials at the British and US consulates confirmed suspicious packages had been received.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There were no immediate reports of any harm to the staff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major emergency response was launched by the Australian authorities on Wednesday after suspicious packages were found at several diplomatic missions, including the Indian Consulate in Melbourne. &#8220;The packages are being examined by attending emergency services,&#8221; the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. Packages were delivered to at least 10 international consulates across Melbourne. Firefighters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2123,10541,10456,10540],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307905,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307900\/revisions\/307905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}