Santiago: Chilean police arrested a 28-year-old Pakistani student who entered the US Embassy in Santiago with traces of an explosive substance on his clothes, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
The Pakistani national, Mohammed Saif Ur Rehman, who arrived in Chile four months ago to study tourism, was detained on Monday when he entered the US mission to process a visa.
"There were indications of an explosive substance on his clothes," a police spokesman told Reuters. "We have not yet confirmed whether it is TNT or another substance."
Police gave no details on how the substance was detected but a local newspaper said the embassy has an explosive-detection system.
The police spokesman said authorities had searched the student's lodgings in the capital overnight and that he would be brought before a judge on Tuesday to make a statement.
Pakistan continues to be a major security issue for the United States. Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born naturalised American charged with trying to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square this month, has admitted to being trained in a Taliban stronghold in Pakistan.
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