Israel suspends mail service after letter-bomb found

[oberliner]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel suspended postal deliveries nationwide on Monday after a letter bomb was found in a post office, police and postal authorities said.

The motive behind the mailing of the explosives was not immediately clear, a police spokesman said, and a court imposed a gag order in the investigation.

The letter bomb was found in a post office in the northern town of Migdal Haemek, where a woman spotted wires and batteries in an envelope she had come to collect.

A police spokesman said police were investigating whether the incident was an act of terrorism or a local criminal event. Israelis were targeted frequently by letter-bombs blamed on or claimed by Palestinian militants in the 1970s and 1980s.

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