Explosion at Turkish embassy in The Hague

"A man was seen placing something in front of the building. When questioned, he ran away and then the explosion happened. The door of the embassy building was damaged," a Turkish foreign ministry official said in Ankara.

Embassy officials had found a second package in the same area and bomb disposal experts were tackling it, he added. Fire erupted after the blast and a fire engine was at the scene, police and witnesses said.

Nelly Ebbenhout, a secretary at the embassy, told Reuters no one had been injured. Another embassy official said the man had entered the mission apparently to get some information before detonating explosives.

Both were speaking by telephone from the embassy uilding, which had not been evacuated. Police aid "something has exploded at the Turkish embassy"
and that fire had broken out, but could not say whether the blast was an attack on the embassy or an accident.

Police cordoned off the area around the embassy, ccording to photographers at the scene. Dutch news agency ANP quoted fire services as saying one person had jumped from the first floor.