Explosion at Spanish Embassy Site in Caracas-Police

asia.reuters.com Tue February 25, 2003 02:09 AM ET

CARACAS, Venezuela, (Reuters) - Explosions hit a Spanish Embassy building and a Colombian consulate building in the Venezuelan capital Caracas early on Tuesday, police and witnesses said.

A Reuters reporter heard an explosion at a technical suboffice of the Spanish embassy in the east of the capital. The gate of the building had been buckled by the blast; across the street, windows of another building were blown in, the reporter said.

"It punched a hole in the wall surrounding the building," he said.

Police and fire officials at the scene said there had also been an explosion at a Colombian consulate building in another part of the capital.

There were no immediate reports of injuries and it was not clear what had caused the explosions.