U.S. Embassy in Montenegro Is Attacked, but Only Attacker Is Killed<br />21, 2018<br />WASHINGTON — A man threw an explosive device onto the grounds of the United States Embassy in Montenegro late Wednesday night,<br />but succeeded only in killing himself, the State Department said.<br />Around midnight local time, witnesses saw the man, who was not identified, throw an object over the wall of the embassy property in Podgorica,<br />the capital, according to Steve Goldstein, the State Department’s under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.<br />Mr. Goldstein said the State Department did not know what the motive for the assault was or whether it was meant to be a suicide attack.<br />Diplomatic security officials swept the grounds and found no other explosives, Mr. Goldstein said, and the building was not damaged.<br />Montenegro, one of the world’s youngest nations, is a tiny country of 640,000 nestled between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania.<br />It was once part of Yugoslavia; later, it became half of the nation of Serbia and Montenegro before declaring independence in 2006.<br />Mark Landler reported from Washington and Maggie Astor from New York.
