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Blasts at British consulate in New York

NEW YORK: Two small grenades exploded in a concrete flower pot outside a multi-storey building housing the British Consulate in midtown Manhattan early on Thursday, shattering glass panel on the front door but causing no injuries, hours after Britain went to polls.

The ``toy grenades'' filled with black gunpowder exploded at around 3.35 am in one of the flower pots kept outside the building as barriers, blowing up a one-foot chunk from the cement pot.

Police sealed off the area and were examining the tapes from surveillance cameras for clues. — PTI

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