WASHINGTON (AP) — At the very least one Molotov cocktail was thrown on the Cuban Embassy in Washington, however there was no important harm and nobody was injured. U.S. regulation enforcement officers had been investigating.
Secret Service officers had been referred to as round 8 p.m. Sunday to reply to the assault on a busy road within the Adams-Morgan part of town. Embassy officers reported that somebody had thrown a “doable incendiary machine” on the constructing, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi mentioned on Monday.
There was no fireplace or important harm to the constructing, he mentioned. No arrests had been made.
Cuban International Minister Bruno Rodriguez mentioned on the X social media web site that the Cuban Embassy “was the goal of a terrorist assault by a person who threw 2 Molotov cocktails,” a kind of crude grenade constituted of a bottle crammed with flammable liquid and a wick that’s lit simply earlier than it’s thrown. He mentioned nobody was injured. A spokesman for the Cuban Embassy didn’t instantly reply to a request for added info on Monday.
In 2020, a Cuban man who sought asylum within the U.S. opened fireplace with an AK-47 on the Cuban Embassy, spraying the entrance of the constructing with almost three dozen rounds. Authorities mentioned the person informed them he opened fireplace as a result of he wished to “get them earlier than they might get him.”
The taking pictures left bullet holes within the glass across the embassy’s door, and bullets pierced the bronze statue of Jose Marti, the Cuban author and nationwide hero, in addition to the columns and facade of the constructing.
Cuba constructed the embassy in 1917. It closed in January 1961 as Chilly Conflict tensions between the 2 nations escalated, and it reopened as an “pursuits part” in 1977. In July 2015, it grew to become an embassy once more as the 2 nations restored relations beneath President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro.
The embassy is on a busy road between the embassies of Poland and Lithuania.
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Balsamo reported from New York.