LONDON
Police in southeast England have charged a 53-year-old man with sending a suspicious package to a coronavirus vaccine production site in north Wales earlier this week.
A spokesman for Kent Police said Saturday that Anthony Collins has been charged with dispatching an article by post “with the intention of inducing the belief it is likely to explode or ignite.”
Collins is set to appear before a court around 40 miles (65 kilometers) southeast of London.
The arrest had taken place on Thursday, a day after all staff had to be evacuated from a site in Wrexham as the package was investigated. The U.K. arm of Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company Wockhardt is producing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the site.
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A British man is accused of sending a suspicious package to a coronavirus vaccine plant in Wales, forcing employees to evacuate the site earlier this week, police said Saturday.
Anthony Collins, 53, was charged with dispatching an article by post “with the intention of inducing the belief it is likely to explode or ignite,” authorities said in a news release.
The package was sent to a facility owned by Wockhardt, a Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company that is producing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine one of three COVID-19 shots approved by the British government.
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A man has been arrested for allegedly sending a suspicious package to a coronavirus vaccine production site in the UK, prompting the site to be evacuated.
Anthony Collins, 53, is charged with dispatching an article by post with the intention of inducing the belief it was likely to explode or ignite , Kent Police said on Saturday.
All staff had to be evacuated and production ground to a halt at the Wockhardt site in North Wales on Wednesday as the package was investigated.
Britain s Ministry of Defence sent a bomb disposal team to assist authorities at the plant. The device was deemed as not viable.
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