Truemors
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two homemade grenades exploded outside the Mexican Consulate in New York City early on Friday in an incident Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said was similar to an attack on the British Consulate in 2005.
The grenades exploded about 3:50 a.m. (0750 GMT) on Friday, breaking three windows, Kelly said. There were people inside the midtown Manhattan building at the time but they did not hear the explosion and there were no injuries, he said.
"These events are remarkably similar," Kelly told reporters. He said the devices used in both events were similar, the incidents happened about the same time of day and that in both cases a man on was seen riding away on a bicycle"
When asked if it could be linked to Saturday's first anniversary of the death of independent U.S. journalist Brad Will in Mexico, Kelly said, "That's something that we're looking at. It's all part of the investigation."
Will was killed when gunmen opened fire in Mexico's colonial city of Oaxaca near roadblocks set up by leftists pushing to topple a state governor.
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