Bomb wave sweeps Corsica
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In a separate incident, armed men abducted a bank manager from his home in the Corsican town of Bastia and held him for several hours. He was released after a ransom was paid.
The bombs exploded within an hour of each other before dawn - 25 in Corsica, one in Paris and another in Nice. The outlawed Corsican National Liberation Front, which wants Corsica's special tax exemptions maintained when the European Community's single market comes into force in January, claimed responsibility.
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