FED: New letter bomb found at inner Sydney post office

AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-1998
FED: New letter bomb found at inner Sydney post office

EDS: ADDRESS OF POST OFFICE CHANGED ON UPDATED INFORMATION



SYDNEY, Dec 4 AAP - A package found at Darlinghurst Post Office in inner Sydney was similar
to 26 other potentially lethal parcel bombs found this week, police confirmed today.

The building in Crown Street had been evacuated just after 9am (AEDT) when staff had
discovered a suspicious package, a police spokesman said.

The package had been detonated by the police bomb disposal and rescue squad inside the post
office late this morning.

"The remains of the controlled detonation will be taken away for forensic examination," the
spokesman said.

At least 26 potentially lethal parcel bombs have been found at addresses in Sydney,
Canberra, Melbourne and the Gold Coast since Monday.

Police have named Colin George Dunstan, 43, a suspended tax officer, as the prime suspect
and launched a nationwide hunt for him.

Mr Dunstan was once involved in a bitter workplace sexual harassment case and is now
considered suicidal.

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KEYWORD: BOMB CONFIRM

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