The fruit and Bible hijacker
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Television reports said Pedro Serafina Aparicio, a Colombian, took over the plane during a domestic flight to Bogota because he was fed up with poverty and violence in his country. 'He said he wanted to talk to President Gaviria,' said a passenger. Police later discovered that his 'bomb', inside a cardboard box, was nothing more than three papayas.
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