Argentina: bomb scare at radio station during Obama visit

March 24, 2016 01:39

Police in Argentina has arrested a man who allegedly walked into a radio station carrying a belt with fireworks and threatening to use them as explosives.

The security ministry says police arrested journalist Carlos Alberto Serbali in the office of state-run Radio Nacional in downtown Buenos Aires after he threatened to detonate a bomb inside the radio station on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama is on a two-day visit to Argentina and security measures have been heightened after the terrorist attack in Belgium.AP

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