Attack on Milan police barracks injures two

Two people were injured in an attack on a police barracks in the northern Italian city of Milan this morning, including the attacker who threw an explosive device, the ANSA news agency reported. Television news channel Sky TG-24 said that the attacker...

Two people were injured in an attack on a police barracks in the northern Italian city of Milan this morning, including the attacker who threw an explosive device, the ANSA news agency reported.

Television news channel Sky TG-24 said that the attacker was foreign and "in a serious condition."

The other casualty was a carabinieri military policeman lightly hurt by glass shards from a window in his sentry box, ANSA said, adding that the barracks itself was lightly damaged.

Police and carabinieri rushed to the scene of the attack.

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