WORLD : Buenos Aires Bank District Bombed
Three bomb blasts rocked the financial center of Argentina’s capital today, a day after the government imposed a state of siege in an effort to contain the country’s deteriorating economic situation.
Witnesses said two people were injured and windows of banks and foreign exchange businesses were shattered by the midday blasts. Police evacuated and cordoned off the area while they searched for more bombs.
The state of siege was imposed after four people were killed, more than 40 others were injured and at least 800 were arrested in rioting and supermarket looting Monday in Argentina’s second largest city, Rosario, and in poor suburbs of the capital.
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