Florida man charged with sending 13 pipe bombs to Trump critics
Gb news24 desk//
A 56-year-old man has been arrested in Florida in connection with a mail-bombing campaign aimed at critics of US President Donald Trump.
US officials named the man as Cesar Sayoc. He faces five charges including mailing explosives and threatening ex-presidents, reports BSS.
Mr Trump said the acts were “despicable and have no place in our country”.
Fourteen items have been sent in recent days to figures including ex-President Barack Obama and actor Robert de Niro.
Two were found in Florida and New York City on Friday morning.
Later, two more were discovered in California. Billionaire and Democrat donor Tom Steyer said that a package sent to him had been intercepted at a mail facility in Burlingame, and another addressed to Democrat Senator Kamala Harris was reported in Sacramento.
The incidents come less than two weeks before the US mid-term elections, with politics highly polarised.
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