Bomb on plane
Tokyo - A Muslim separatist group in the Philippines claimed responsibility for a mid-air explosion on a Tokyo-bound Philippine Airlines jumbo jet that killed one person and injured 10.
The plane flew on to the island of Okinawa with a gaping hole in the floor and made an emergency landing with 307 people aboard. The bomb was placed beneath a seat in the economy-class section of the plane. The dead passenger and the injured were all Japanese, most of them tourists. Reuter
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