 URL wednesday NUMBER december NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER gmt bomber targets dutch ikea stores police in the netherlands are searching all NUMBER outlets of the ikea furniture chain in the country after finding bombs in two stores the devices were discovered in amsterdam and sliedrecht near the port city of rotterdam on tuesday evening the sliedrecht bomb exploded at a police station injuring two policeman police have also closed off a motorway section in the central city utrecht near a third ikea store where a suspicious package was found no information about the motive behind the attacks has been released we decided together with the police because of safety reasons that the company s stores in the netherlands would be closed today said ikea spokeswoman helen van trearum we don t want to take any risks we are taking this very seriously she added ikea a swedish based group is one of the world s largest furniture retailers with stores in more than NUMBER countries meanwhile the amsterdam head office of the dutch news agency anp was evacuated on wednesday after police warned that a bomb might have been planted in the building to unsubscribe from this group send an email to forteana unsubscribe URL your use of yahoo groups is subject to URL 