"Explosive device" in Iasi

UPDATE 5: Radio Iasi reporter, Lucian Balanuta, spoke to one of the witnesses at the incident.

Student Marian Platonov told he was present in the room when the suspect began "to unwrap the cover that the bomb had."

"We remained five in the room, plus two teachers.

"While he was unveiling the bomb, he accidentally pressed the button and exploded.

"We're lucky he did not unveil all the cover, he just unveiled it on the top.

"The whole room was filled with white smoke from sulfur; I don’t know what was there.

"And, after it exploded, a colleague of mine and I jumped over him, we immobilized him and put my hands behind his back and tied his hands with a belt," said Marian Platonov.

UPDATE 4: According to the spokesman of the Police Inspectorate of Iasi, the suspect has 38 years and is known as having multiple hospitalizations in psychiatric clinics.

Our correspondent in Iasi, Stefan Daraban, broadcasts that investigations were taken by prosecutors from the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism.

UPDATE 3: Although the suspect's name has not been announced by the authorities, a doctor from Iasi said on Reality TV that this could be his patient at Socola psychiatric hospital and that he was hospitalized several times, the last time in the spring.

"The large number of hospitalizations shows that my patient did not follow the prescribed treatment," said the doctor.

UPDATE 2: According to a DIICOT release, prosecutors do research on "committing the offenses under Law no. 535/2004 on preventing and combating terrorism."

"Prosecutors from the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism - Territorial Service Science, with the support of the Romanian Intelligence Service officers and Romanian Police, proceeded to initiate an investigation to identify and prosecute the person who did the location of an explosive device inside the University", states the release.

UPDATE 1: SRI spokesman, Sorin Sava, said for Reality TV that the man detained by police after the explosion at the Department of Telecommunications Science "has mental problems."

Police spokesman from Iasi, Anca Vâjâiac, said that a person has detonated an "explosive device" within the Faculty of Telecommunications of the Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi".

The explosion caused no victims, according to the source.

The man was injured and was taken up by the police, broadcasted our RRA correspondent in Iasi, Stefan Daraban.

The minister for Higher Education, Mihnea Costoiu, quoted by Reality TV, said that the man who detonated the explosive material threatened to have left in the building "another luggage with explosives", but he did not specified whether the university was evacuated.

Mihnea Costoiu also said that "the police and SRI" now investigate the Faculty.

Radio Iasi reporter, Lucian Bălănuţă, recounts that after the explosion occurred, the man was restrained by teachers and students.

"I understand from a witness who sustained then the license exam that the young man suffered burns on his face and the other students who were in the room complain of headaches and earaches," says our reporter.

Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea