<p><br /> Two people have been injured in separate explosions at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Italy.<br /> </p><p><br /> There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the incidents bore similarities to an episode in Greece last month in which far-left militants were suspected of sending parcel bombs to foreign governments and embassies in Athens.<br /> </p><p><br /> The Italian news agency ANSA said a suspect package had also been found at the Ukrainian mission but the embassy later said no dangerous items had been found after a search of the package.<br /> </p><p><br /> Police said the injured Swiss embassy employee had been taken to hospital in central Rome suffering serious wounds to his hands after he opened a package in the mailroom.<br /> </p><p><br /> Bomb disposal experts searched the Swiss embassy offices, located in a prosperous part of Rome which houses many foreign embassies, but staff remained in the building following the incident, which occurred at around midday.<br /> </p><p><br /> The explosion at the Chilean embassy came in early afternoon, hours after the earlier incident.<br /> </p><p><br /> Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini condemned the incident at the Swiss embassy: "We express our full solidarity with the Swiss ambassador and with all the personnel of this diplomatic representation, which has been the target of a deplorable act of violence that deserves our strongest condemnation," he said in a statement.<br /> </p><p><br /> The explosions follow the discovery of a rudimentary device in an empty underground train in Rome on Tuesday. However, police said that it lacked a detonator and tests showed it contained no explosives.<br /> </p>
