Bomb Detonated on US-Mexico Border Bridge


NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO -- A bomb found on the Puerta a las Americas, one of the four international bridges linking this Mexican city to Laredo, Texas, was detonated by U.S. explosives experts using a robot, Mexican officials said.

A caller told the emergency operations center in Nuevo Laredo, which is in Tamaulipas state, that six bombs had been planted on the bridge on Saturday, Nuevo Laredo emergency management chief Juan Ernesto Rivera told Efe.

After police on both sides of the border were notified and the bridge was closed, U.S. explosives experts searched the structure and found only one bomb, which was destroyed in a controlled detonation.

The bridge reopened a few minutes later to pedestrians and vehicles.

Bomb threats have been received for months, but this was the first time that an actual bomb was found in the area.

U.S. explosives experts are analyzing the bomb.




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