Suspect detained after petrol bomb attack on Israeli embassy in Romania

A foreign citizen has been detained in Bucharest after throwing a Molotov cocktail outside the Israeli embassy. No damage or casualties were caused by the attack.

The Romanian intelligence service said it had caught the 34-year-old suspect, and handed him to the police. 

Israel's foreign ministry confirmed that the Romanian authorities had arrested a suspect “apparently of Syrian origin”.

He had pulled out, lit and thrown the petrol bomb while undergoing a security inspection, it said.